Henna Virkkunen, the European Union's digital chief, warned that artificial intelligence is becoming a geopolitical weapon and urged Europe to avoid relying on an unpredictable Washington for strategi…
The European Commission has published guidelines to help AI deployers comply with the EU AI Act's transparency obligations, which take effect August 2. Companies must inform users when interacting wit…
Starting August 2, providers of AI systems in the EU must disclose when users are interacting with a machine and add machine-readable marks to AI-generated content under new transparency rules from th…
The European Commission on Thursday ordered Google to give third-party AI assistants and search engines equal access to Android functions and search data under the Digital Markets Act, aiming to foste…
The European Commission ordered Alphabet's Google to grant OpenAI and other AI rivals access to 11 key Android functionalities and share anonymized search data under the Digital Markets Act, with chan…
The European Commission has ordered Google to share anonymized search data with rivals and open Android to competing AI agents by January 2027, citing the need to level the playing field against Googl…
The European Commission ordered Google on Thursday to open Android to rival AI assistants and share its search data with competitors under the Digital Markets Act. Google must let users choose a prefe…
The European Union on Thursday issued two new rules forcing Google to share search data and open its Android operating system to rival AI companies, aiming to boost competition and user choice. Henna …
Apple CEO Tim Cook held a virtual meeting with EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen on June 30 to discuss the delayed launch of Siri AI in the European Union, which Apple attributes to regulatory hurdles und…
Apple CEO Tim Cook held 'constructive' talks with EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen on Tuesday about releasing Siri AI in the bloc while complying with digital rules. The enhanced Siri AI will not launch …
Apple CEO Tim Cook and EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen held a video call on Monday to discuss the delay of Siri AI in Europe due to Digital Markets Act compliance issues, but no breakthrough was reached…
European Technology Commissioner Henna Virkkunen and Apple CEO Tim Cook held a constructive video call on Monday, discussing topics of mutual interest, a Commission spokesperson said Wednesday. The ca…
Apple CEO Tim Cook held a virtual meeting with EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen to discuss the delayed launch of Siri AI in Europe, which Apple blames on the Digital Markets Act. The European Commission …
Austria's state secretary for digitalisation, Alexander Pröll, has formally asked the European Union to explore hosting US AI company Anthropic within the bloc, following a US Commerce Department orde…
Austria's State Secretary for Digitalization, Alexander Proell, urged the European Union to host Anthropic after US export controls forced the AI company to disable its frontier models for foreign use…
The European Commission proposed on Wednesday to strengthen Europol's mandate by enhancing information exchange and embedding cutting-edge technology at the heart of its operations, as part of a broad…
European retail association EuroCommerce has asked EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen to exempt some AI-generated advertisements from the EU AI Act's transparency rules, arguing that ads not intended to mi…
The European Commission announced the European Technological Sovereignty Package, a plan to reduce the EU's reliance on foreign tech in semiconductors, AI, cloud, and open source. The package includes…
The European Commission on June 3-5, 2026 proposed a "European Technological Sovereignty Package" including a Chips Act 2.0, Cloud and AI Development Act, and Open Source Strategy to reduce the EU's r…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen appointed Siemens supervisory board chairman Jim Hagemann Snabe as special envoy for industrial AI, sparking immediate conflict-of-interest accusatio…