European digital assets have a habit of not staying European. A ‘Buy European’ label is not a sovereignty guarantee unless it embraces licensing as a tool and helps to safeguard the supply chains the software depends on.
Water-resource conflicts already happening in Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands will only worsen now that the EU Commission plans to triple data centre capacity in Europe over the next five to seven years. Little thought has been given to the oligopolistic cloud market and how it will evolve if the EU triples its data centre capacity.
The EU restricts biometric surveillance at home – but its landmark AI Act does nothing to prevent European companies from exporting the same technology abroad.
MEPs on Tuesday called for greater transparency and payment for copyrighted works used in AI technology — and legal consequences for violations.
Like much recent EU migration legislation, the proposal was presented without a comprehensive fundamental rights impact assessment. Sixteen UN experts have already raised concerns about its compatibility with international law. Yet EU institutions are rushing the file through the legislative process.
TikTok removed 112 million pieces of content – mainly with automated systems – that violated the platform’s policies in the EU between July and December 2025, according to the platform’s latest Digital Services Act transparency report.
‘We are not yet seeing the waves of redundancies that are feared’, European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde said, but stressed Europe was benefitting for AI-productivity gains on a par with the US and China.
The European Data Protection Board, along with 60 other data protection authorities around the globe, have called for safeguards on AI content-generators, especially regarding non-consensual AI imagery.
The EU needs to regulate smartly if it wants to have a real impact. Because globally, the US and China — the two biggest AI players — are not regulating AI use.
The CEO of Paris-based Mistral, often touted as a European AI champion, raised concerns over the concentration of AI power in a few companies during the global summit in India, while political leaders focused on tech safety.
French president Emmanuel Macron lands in New Delhi on Monday where he and other EU leaders will join prime minister Narendra Modi and AI executives future of AI at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.
The EU Democracy Shield has a blind spot: Europe isn’t auditing what AI actually tells its citizens. When Russian-speaking Europeans ask an AI about the war in Ukraine, they may receive systematically different answers than their English-speaking neighbours.
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OpenAI spends more on AI than the whole EU. Europe is lagging in the innovation race — here’s why, and how it plans to catch up.
The European Commission has warned US tech giant Meta that it intends to implement measures to prevent a policy change on WhatsApp that would prevent third-party AI assistance — a move the executive sees as a potential antitrust violation.
A new draft report by Green MEP Sergey Lagodinsky aims to amend the AI Omnibus proposal to prohibit generative apps that can generate nonconsensual sensualised content.
The European Commission has opened an investigation into X due to risks from integrating its AI chatbot Grok directly into the platform — examining if Elon Musk’s social media platform complies with the risk assessment and mitigation requirements under the Digital Services Act.
