My plea to European politicians to at least be present on a European social network – which already exists today. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/opinion/the-...

Have a look at which EU lawmakers will be working on the AI omnibus – and trying to finish Parliament’s report within less than two months. Read my article at @euractiv.com www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...

Startups, scientists and satellite producers will profit from today’s trade deal with India, says @ec.europa.eu – plus, maybe it’ll save your e-mail inbox from some spam. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/eu-and-...

Cyprus seems to have heard the protests against exempting some high-risk AI systems from having to register in an EU database. Let’s simplify the process instead, a first Council compromise text on the AI omnibus now proposes. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/council...

AI is making its way into Europe’s administrations – provoking the same questions around sovereignty that have accompanied public cloud deals for years. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/how-eur...

Authors, artists and other creatives are still not happy with the situation around copyright and AI, spotlighted by info on training data which is currently still missing in action. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/missing...

Countries are seeing eye to eye on many parts of the AI omnibus package. But one of the Commission’s proposals – exempting some companies building AI systems from having to register them in an EU database – is more controversial. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/countri...

EU tech chief @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social called for regulations to replace directives in digital laws Virkkunen says regulation-only digital rules would boost EU competitiveness - @euractiv.com www.euractiv.com/news/eu-tech...

Companies releasing new AI models need to publish info on what data they used to train them under EU rules. But that info seems to be missing for several large AI models released since last August. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/ai-comp...

European governing elites from London through Brussels to Moldova face the worst threats since 1945, from Putin, Trump, China, AI, climate etc. Why are they so unequipped to deal with them? Me on the men (mostly) with blue suits and diplomas who have landed in the jungle as.ft.com/r/b709f313-8...

Théophane's got the biggest telco leak of the mandate for your enjoyment.

The @ec.europa.eu is drafting guidelines to temporarily stand in for the much-delayed AI Act standards, should they still not be ready for their yet-to-be-formally-delayed 2027 deadline. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

The #Grok scandal keeps heating up. Now @ec.europa.eu President Ursula von der Leyen herself is hitting out at Elon Musk allowing women and children to be digital undressed on his platform – and threatening EU action. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/von-der...

The @ec.europa.eu will soon present “a combination of funding and policy measures” to support European open source projects in becoming commercially viable alternatives to proprietary US tech. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

The US might soon get access to Europeans’ biometric data – like fingerprints and facial scans – which it wants to keep allowing visa-free travel to the country. EU governments have already given their OK to start talks. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/eu-coun...

The first draft of the EU’s code of practice on AI transparency is out – and it has some interesting ideas for how companies should mark deepfakes. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/eu-coul...

EU governments broadly agreed on delaying the AI Act’s high-risk rules at a discussion on Monday, with talks instead centring on whether such a delay should be flexible or fixed. Read more in today’s edition of @euractiv.com’s The Hack: www.euractiv.com/news/the-hac...

The European Parliament's political groups have agreed to leave the AI omnibus with the committees for internal market and civil liberties, despite a challenge from the industry and legal committees. Read more in today's edition of @euractiv.com's The Hack: www.euractiv.com/news/the-hac...

Three-euro customs fees are coming for your cheap online orders – but only in July, so no worries for this Christmas. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/cheap-p...

It’s hedged, but it’s here: Parliament’s legal committee wants a directive for the #28thregime to better the odds of it happening. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...

Some EU governments don’t seem to be fully on board with the @ec.europa.eu’s proposal to centralise key parts of enforcing the EU’s AI rules. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/capital...

New EU competition case against Google just dropped. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

Germany’s Karsten Wildberger played the role of lead hawk on further simplifying the EU’s tech rules on Friday. Some countries backed him up, others urged caution. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/council...

An EU employment law planned for next year could look at AI managing workers and remote work, the @ec.europa.eu said today – details to be decided. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

One court case is enough, MEPs said today, and decided not to also sue the Commission over withdrawing the AI Liability Directive back in February. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...

While the Commission is yet to present its proposal for a #28thregime, EU governments are already exchanging views – and surprise, surprise, not everyone is seeing eye to eye. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/capital...

🚨 BREAKING: After years of negotiations, the Council is now ready to start talks with the Parliament on CSAM. Mandatory detection orders were ditched in order to get the sufficient backing from member states, they would now remain voluntary www.euractiv.com/news/council...

A group of lawmakers has called on the @europarl.europa.eu to use more EU software and hardware, namechecking a whole host of solutions which they say can replace the current – dominantly US – tech suite. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...

The @ec.europa.eu has launched a new AI whistleblower tool – even though users will mostly only be legally protected next year. But Karl Koch from the AI whistleblower initiative still told me it’s an “incredibly valuable step”. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

The EU is pushing through a customs reform to deal with exploding numbers of incoming parcels from China. But Parliament and Council are at loggerheads – risking a delay until after Christmas. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/capital...

If you ever end up being a witness in a court case heard in another EU country, the @ec.europa.eu wants to make sure that you’ll at least be able to have a videocall without technical hiccups. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

Amazon has offered that a US-based senior vice president could remotely address members of Parliament’s employment committee in a new attempt to defuse tensions with MEPs. Read @eddywax.bsky.social’ and my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...

From the category of “boring, but potentially very useful”, the @ec.europa.eu has today proposed creating a system of European Business Wallets to make it easier for companies to file paperwork across borders. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/busines...

After months of debate, the @ec.europa.eu has officially proposed delaying rules for high-risk AI systems. That’ll now kick off new months of debate in Council and especially in Parliament. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

And then it was different: Merz and Macron yesterday evening sounded much more in sync on key sovereignty questions - Buy European, cloud definition - than their digital ministers just hours before. Read @theophane.euractiv.com's and my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/paris-a...

Doesn’t look like we’re done with talking quite yet: Germany and France don’t seem to be of the same mind on using public procurement to support European tech companies. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/german-...

“Europe is ready to move from debate to delivery”, Germany’s digital minister Karsten Wildberger just said at the Berlin summit on digital sovereignty – backed up by France’s Roland Lescure. Let’s see about that. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/berlin-...

EU governments today happily backed a call to put customs restrictions on cheap Chinese parcels earlier than planned – by 2026 if possible – but an actual decision is yet to come. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/capital...

Parliament’s Christian Democrats just voted the first omnibus package through together with the right. If the centre-left’s protests are any indication, the digital package could follow in those footsteps. @claudiemoreau.bsky.social's and my article @euractiv.com www.euractiv.com/news/tech-la...

The social democrats aren’t big fans of what the @ec.europa.eu is planning to do with the EU’s tech laws next week. Read @claudiemoreau.bsky.social’s and my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/social-...

Don’t make predictions about what AI will be able to do next year based on what tech CEOs say, a group of scientists has told @ec.europa.eu President Ursula von der Leyen. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/stop-ov...

A second look at the leaked draft of the @ec.europa.eu’s AI omnibus: Fundamental rights authorities are set to have their powers clarified down. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

I’ve got my hands on the AI part of the long-awaited digital omnibus. Looks like the AI Office can look forward to additional oversight powers. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

Companies are building giant AI data centres around the world – but how powerful are those exactly? I had a look at the methods researchers are using to keep up. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/the-wil...

Scoop: We obtained vast amounts of European mobile phone location data from data brokers. It was allegedly collected for advertising purposes only, but can be used to spy on high-ranking EU officials & NATO staff in Brussels. The Commission is 'concerned' & issued new security guidance to its staff.

The @ec.europa.eu is mulling a new EU-wide portal for public authorities to buy goods and services, according to a survey published on Monday. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

The International Criminal Court will replace Microsoft’s Office with Open Desk, an open source European alternative, the court confirmed today. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/interna...

France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands today got the @ec.europa.eu’s go-ahead to together build sovereign digital infrastructure in areas like AI, cloud, cybersecurity – and, curiously, social networks. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/eu-coun...

The 28th regime should not be limited to “innovative” companies, startup commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva said today – and acknowledged Commission services are still debating the Regulation vs Directive question. Read my article at Euractiv: www.euractiv.com/news/startup...

People leading the drafting of high-risk AI standards for the EU’s AI Act are threatening to walk out over their recent fast-tracking, warning of “serious unintended consequences”. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/fast-tr...