Tech Archives

The new tech Commission’s has a long to-do list and some shifts in focus, an insider look at Council negotiations on telecoms shows member states are likely to strongly resist deregulation.

Responses from EU member states to the Hungarian Presidency's first draft conclusions on the telecoms sector show that countries remain largely unconvinced by Letta and Draghi's arguments for deregulating the sector.

The European Parliament Research Service (EPRS) recommended that liability regulation include general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) products and a broader legal instrument for software liability, in a study released on Thursday (19 September).

The European Commission will formally specify steps that Apple needs to take to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) around its interoperability with other products, the EU executive announced on Thursday (19 September).

The Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU is attempting to bridge the gap between member states' reluctance and Letta and Draghi reports eagerness towards consolidation in the telecom sector, according to draft Council conclusions and seen by Euractiv.

Adult industry stakeholders are looking to influence artificial intelligence (AI) regulations to protect content creators' rights amid emerging issues like AI-generated pornography, deepfakes, and age verification challenges.

The High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the United Nations (UN) shared its awaited report on global AI governance today (19 September), proposing several new international institutions.

The European Commission will stop looking into whether Microsoft's hiring of Inflection AI staff breached EU merger rules after seven EU countries dropped their requests for an investigation, the EU executive said in a press release on Wednesday (18 September). 

Ursula von der Leyen’s commissioners-designate are to present 30 new strategies, acts, and initiatives to make Europe competitive and secure in tech.

The European Union's General Court annulled the Commission's €1.49 billion fine on Google for anticompetitive behaviour with its AdSense product on Wednesday (18 September), leaving the Commission just over two months to appeal.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's proposal for the next College of Commissioners is to split the tech portfolio into a maze-like organogram.

Finland’s Henna Virkkunen has been appointed as the European Commission's next executive vice-president for Tech Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy, signalling a shift in EU digital policy, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Tuesday (17 September).

US chipmaker Intel is halting plans for new factories in Germany and Poland amid financial troubles, in a blow to the EU efforts to build up domestic chipmaking capacity.

The resignation of now-former Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton, known as the key architect of the EU’s current digital agenda, is viewed by some as a chance to reshape what has often been criticised for being controversial. 

The EU Commission scored two big wins against Big Tech at the EU's top court, Draghi threw his weight behind tech-enabled productivity in his reporter on Europe's future.

Google's efforts to fully comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) remains insufficient, travel and hospitality organisations attending two European Commission workshops this week, told Euractiv.

The Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) has challenged the recommendations of Enrico Letta and Mario Draghi for the EU telecoms industry, in a report released on Thursday (12 September).

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) launched a cross-border inquiry into Google's compliance with privacy laws in processing EU citizen's data for its artificial intelligence (AI) model PaLM 2, according to a Thursday (12 September) press release.

European consumer groups on Thursday (12 September) accused the world's biggest video game companies of "purposefully tricking" consumers, including children, to push them to spend more.

EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager is concluding her mandate at the European Commission with two major victories as the top EU court ruled against Apple’s Irish tax arrangements and Google’s anti-competitive practices.

Despite the conclusion of the Irish Data Protection Commission's (DPC) court proceedings against social media platform X, questions about its Artificial Intelligence (AI) data practices and compliance with EU data protection laws remain.

Draghi gave an accurate diagnosis of EU’s competitiveness problems in his long-waited report, but his treatment is “too incremental” and lacking “spark,” according to experts.

A new compromise text sent by the Hungarian Presidency of the EU Council to delegations about the draft law to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM), focuses on known material, possibly lessening concerns around the regulations' privacy implications.