2025-07-11
NEW: The final draft of the AI Act's code of practice for general-purpose AI models is finally out. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/ ...
Bloomberg
The EU publishes a voluntary code of practice to help companies follow its AI Act, including requiring developers to provide up-to-date AI feature documentation
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/ policies/... Yoshua Bengio / @yoshuabengio : All of us who drafted the Chapter are independent experts. With lots of useful input from industry, ...
2025-07-10
NEW: The final draft of the AI Act's code of practice for general-purpose AI models is finally out. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/ ...
Bloomberg
The EU publishes a voluntary code of practice to help companies follow its AI Act, including requiring developers to provide up-to-date AI feature documentation
The European Union published a code of practice to help companies follow its landmark AI Act that includes copyright protections …
2025-02-12
🚨HUGE: The European Commission has withdrawn the AI Liability Directive. “No foreseeable agreement - the Commission will assess whether another proposal should be tabled or another type of approach should be chosen.” https://commission.europa.eu/ ...
Euractiv
After the AI Action Summit, the EU Commission says it will withdraw the AI Liability Directive, a strategic move to show goodwill to the Trump administration
The Commission justified its removal by saying it could see “no foreseeable agreement” on the directive. — This article is exceptionally available for free!
2025-02-11
EXCLUSIVE: 🇫🇷, 🇩🇪 & 🇳🇱 are set to publish a paper later this week asking not only to cover AI and cloud services under the #DMA but also to update the DMA's list of obligations & introduce a supervisory fee for gatekeepers. All details on @mlexclusive. https://www.mlex.com/...
Reuters
Paris AI summit: US VP JD Vance warns the EU that excessive AI regulation could strangle the tech and rejects content moderation as “authoritarian censorship”
U.S. Vice President JD Vance warned Europeans on Tuesday that what he called their excessive regulation …
EXCLUSIVE: 🇫🇷, 🇩🇪 & 🇳🇱 are set to publish a paper later this week asking not only to cover AI and cloud services under the #DMA but also to update the DMA's list of obligations & introduce a supervisory fee for gatekeepers. All details on @mlexclusive. https://www.mlex.com/...
New York Times
Paris AI summit takeaways: Europe has regulation regrets, AI doomsayers have lost ground, and policymakers can't seem to grasp how soon powerful AI could arrive
Kevin Roose / New York Times :
2025-02-05
A significant caveat in the accompanying communication: “The Guidelines will be formally adopted by the Commission at a later date, when all language versions are available. It is only from that moment that these Guidelines will be applicable.”
Reuters
The EC releases its prohibited AI practices guidelines under the EU's AI Act, like using AI to track employees' emotions or to manipulate app and website users
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters :
‼️The Commission's guidelines on the #AIAct's prohibited practices are finally out. A whopping 140 pages long. A lot of information to digest. The guidelines on the AI system definition are not ready yet, but will be out ‘soon’. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/ ...
Reuters
The EC releases its prohibited AI practices guidelines under the EU's AI Act, like using AI to track employees' emotions or to manipulate app and website users
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters :
Interesting wording that could capture targeted ads: “Another example is personalized manipulation where an AI system that creates and tailors highly persuasive messages based on an individual's personal data... to a point of creating significant harm.”
Reuters
The EC releases its prohibited AI practices guidelines under the EU's AI Act, like using AI to track employees' emotions or to manipulate app and website users
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters :
2024-11-14
🚨NEW: The European Commission has just published the first draft of the Code of Practice for general-purpose #AI model providers. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/ ...
TechCrunch
The EU publishes its first draft of a Code of Practice under the AI Act for general-purpose AI models, including provisions for copyright and systemic risk
A first draft of a Code of Practice that will apply to providers of general-purpose AI models under the European Union's AI Act has been published …
2024-09-26
The #AI Pact signatories list is out. Even with significantly diluted pledges, Apple & Meta decided not to join, continuing their collision course with the EU. Mistral & Anthropic are also out, but that makes sense since they are only in the model segment. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/ ...
TechCrunch
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and 100+ other companies signed the EU's AI Pact for “voluntary pledges” before the AI Act; Apple and Meta did not sign
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
2024-02-03
#AIAct: 🇫🇷 confirmed they will support the text “with strict conditions.” In particular, on developing competitive AI models, balancing transparency and trade secrets, reassessing the threshold for systemic models, and avoiding overburdening with high-risk obligations. 1/4
Politico
EU countries strike a deal on the AI Act, after announcing pro-innovation measures and an AI Office; the bill still needs the EU Parliament's formal approval
#AI Act: it's a wrap! EU countries endorsed the text unanimously. An overview of how we got here since the troubled political agreement in December and what we can expect next in my last article for @Euractiv. https://www.euractiv.com/...
Politico
EU countries strike a deal on the AI Act, after announcing pro-innovation measures and an AI Office; the bill still needs the EU Parliament's formal approval
2023-12-19
This is the first formal investigation under the #DSA, meaning it will provide the testbed for compliance. Other platforms will be watching to see if the law has teeth. X provided the ideal case to make an example, but the Commission must now show that it means business. 6/6
The Verge
The European Commission opens a DSA investigation into X, focusing on “illegal content and disinformation”, ad transparency, “deceptive design”, and data access
2023-12-10
#AIAct trilogue: it's a wrap! After 36 hours of intense negotiations, EU policymakers have reached a provisional deal on the world's first AI law. Much technical work remains, and it might take weeks to consolidate the text. More details to follow on the political agreement.
Bloomberg
The European Parliament and the EU's 27 member states will need to approve the AI Act, which seeks fines of up to €35M or 7% of global turnover for violations
- Region couldn't ‘let the perfect be the enemy of the good’ — Negotiators broke coffee machine working late-night deal
#AIAct trilogue: it's a wrap! After 36 hours of intense negotiations, EU policymakers have reached a provisional deal on the world's first AI law. Much technical work remains, and it might take weeks to consolidate the text. More details to follow on the political agreement.
New York Times
The EU reaches a deal on the AI Act, one of the world's first comprehensive attempts to limit AI use, including in law enforcement and critical infrastructure
another set of rules that let them fine US big tech companies since there aren't any European ones. The law will require foundation models, including GPT & Gemini, to comply with ...
2023-12-09
#AIAct trilogue: it's a wrap! After 36 hours of intense negotiations, EU policymakers have reached a provisional deal on the world's first AI law. Much technical work remains, and it might take weeks to consolidate the text. More details to follow on the political agreement.
New York Times
The EU reaches a deal on the AI Act, a comprehensive attempt to limit the use of the technology; the law still needs to go through a few steps for approval
The agreement over the A.I. Act solidifies one of the world's first comprehensive attempts to limit the use of artificial intelligence.
2023-11-15
There is nothing better than some Friday drama to close such a hectic week. A technical meeting on the #AI Act has broken down today, but make no mistake: the issue is deeply political and, if no solution is found soon, the whole law is at risk. A 🧵1/8 https://www.euractiv.com/...
TechCrunch
EU lawmakers are on a tricky knife edge hammering out the AI Act's final shape, as France and Germany push for a regulatory carve-out for foundation models
2023-10-19
The UK's AI Safety Summit is set to highlight the risk that ‘frontier’ models could escape human control or be used to produce catastrophic effects in domains like cybersecurity & biotechnology, according to a draft communiqué seen by @EURACTIV. https://www.euractiv.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: the UK plans to announce an international advisory group on AI, loosely modeled on the UN's IPCC, at the November 2023 AI summit in Bletchley Park
The British government wants to draw on expert knowledge about the fast-developing technology — The UK is planning to announce …
2023-06-28
#Data Act: a political agreement has been reached on territorial scope, trade secrets, safety and security and governance. The date of application was set to 20 months. More details to follow.
Reuters
EU countries and lawmakers reach an agreement on the Data Act, establishing rules on how Big Tech and other companies use European consumer and corporate data
on our conditions. [image] @eucouncilpress : 🇪🇺 @EUCouncil and @Europarl_EN strike a deal on fair access to and use of data (#DataAct) Read our press release 👇 https://europa.eu/!P...
2023-05-12
#AI Act: Following the @EP_SingleMarket and @EP_Justice committees' adoption of the file, @eaTechEU provides an overview of the main changes the European Parliament introduced to the text. https://www.euractiv.com/...
Reuters