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Airbus selected Scaleway as its sovereign cloud provider after a tender that scored protection against non-European extraterritorial legislation alongside technical capability. Airbus frames it as complementing multi-cloud, not exiting AWS. Practitioners note the pattern is spreading past hyperscalers to small US SaaS vendors, and that sovereignty claims still require verifiable controls. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

The AI security layer and guardrails for many AI products don't evenly protect against jailbreaking and unsafe actions in every single language.

China slapped export controls on 14 European companies including German defense giant Rheinmetall AG, saying it acted in retaliation against the European Union’s sanctions on mainland and Hong Kong ...

The EU will face a flat 10% tariff from Friday following the outcome of a US investigation into trade in products made with forced labour, a European Commission spokesperson said. Washington announced ...

In 2024, Max Bergmann wrote, “NATO Missed a Chance to Transform Itself,” where he argued NATO’s leadership needs to facilitate a strong European pillar of the alliance through structural reforms in European institutions. Two years later, we asked Max to revisit his arguments.Image: The White House via Wikimedia CommonsIn 2024, you argued NATO’s own leadership should facilitate a European pillar. Two years later, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told the European Parliament that anyone who think

EU competition chief says it is bloc’s ‘duty to defend rule of law’ while delivering ‘strong message’ to search giant

European regulators fined Google $1 billion, alleging the company gives preferential treatment to its own services.

The fund is interested in emerging technologies, the general manager of Lockheed Martin’s venture arm told Breaking Defense, including quantum computing and sensing, autonomy, and advanced manufacturing technologies.

The European Union on Thursday hit hit Google with a fine of 890 million euros ($1 billion) after it said the technology behemoth broke digital antitrust regulations by setting up Google Play and its ubiquitous search engine to corral consumers towards its own services and apps to the detriment of competitors. It was the latest major crackdown on Big Tech by Brussels, which has led the world in reining in some of the world’s largest companies from Silicon Valley to Beijing. It has done so despit

The European Union fined Google about $1 billion on Thursday for violating its digital competition law, finding the company improperly favored its own products in Google Search and limited developers from directing users to third-party app stores. The EU's executive arm, the European Commission, hit the company with a 460 million euro fine and a...

En ce mois de juillet, Microsoft a mis en ligne son « environmental sustainability report ». Il regroupe les indicateurs environnementaux avec les consommations en eau et électricité de ses datacenters. Résultat des courses : les curseurs sont bien plus élevés aux États-Unis et en Asie qu’en Europe. Chaque année, les géants américains (Google, Microsoft […]

Humanoid, a UK-based AI and robotics company building industrial humanoid robots, announced a $152 million Series A financing at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation.

Brussels has developed a curious theory of digital privacy. Anonymous search queries need audits, screening, and a security cordon. Your messages, microphone, and screen can make do with a checkbox. That is the logic running through two decisions the European Commission adopted last week involving the same company, under the same law, on the same ... Europe’s Privacy Paradox: Fort Knox for Search Data, a Checkbox for Your Phone The post Europe’s Privacy Paradox: Fort Knox for Search Data, a Chec

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French animation and visual effects company STIM – whose credits include “The Wild Robot,” “The Garfield Movie” and “Coyote vs. Acme” – is opening a production center in Spain’s Canary Islands, with plans to create more than 100 jobs as it expands its European operations. STIM Tenerife is set to begin operating in August and […]

Both houses of the French Parliament voted to block social media access for children under 15, making France the first European country to enact a ban amid a broadening global crackdown.

European and US banks inadvertently transmitted customer data to ad platforms via tracking pixels, raising serious compliance, security, and privacy concerns.

Samsung is in talks to invest up to one billion euros in French AI startup Mistral, which would push the company's valuation to around 20 billion euros. The article Samsung deepens its AI empire with a potential billion-euro stake in Europe's hottest AI startup appeared first on The Decoder .

CATL has signed a 2 GWh agreement with Solarpro, a leading renewable energy company in Central and Eastern Europe, to deploy its Tener Sodium energy storage system. The two companies plan to jointly develop the first large-scale sodium-ion battery energy storage project in the region later this year. The project will use CATL’s Tener Sodium […]

arXiv:2607.18424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated analyses of privacy policies enable large-scale assessments of transparency in digital ecosystems, yet existing auditing pipelines remain predominantly English-centric. This limits their ability to systematically evaluate multilingual environments, as in the European Union, where many services disclose privacy practices only in local languages. This paper examines whether large language models (LLMs) can extend privacy policy analysis bey

Spain’s proposed ‘AI secrecy law’ is putting transparency, taxpayer rights and algorithmic accountability at the centre of Europe’s tax debate ...

In many jurisdictions, academia is at the service of legal practice. Law professors write commentaries that summarize the state of the art of doctrine, chiefly of jurisprudence. In the spirit of a proof of concept, using the guarantee of freedom of assembly in the European Convention on Human Rights, we show that this task can be completely outsourced to large language models. Using standard NLP metrics and an LLM as a judge approach, we develop an evaluation pipeline that works without costly h

Tobacco giant Philip Morris used AI to generate hundreds of fake "citizen" responses opposing tougher EU rules on vapes, with the Netherlands among the countries worst affected, an investigation by broadcaster NOS and the journalism platfor ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1590#7560)

Nearly three-quarters of Dutch submissions to a European Union consultation on stricter tobacco rules were fully written by artificial intelligence and submitted as apparent individual responses. Most were traced to an AI tool linked to tob ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1590#7561)

Brussels -- One in three responses to the European Commission's public consultation on stricter tobacco legislation is said to have been generated by artificial intelligence. The allegation -- which is worrying because it also casts doubt o ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1590#7562)

The Tour de France is reckoning with the impacts of climate change.

The city is home to the fastest-growing digital economy in Europe.

La Comisión Europea ha multado a AliExpress con 550 millones de euros por permitir la venta de productos ilegales, inseguros y falsificados en su plataforma. Es la sanción más alta jamás impuesta bajo la Ley de Servicios Digitales (DSA) , la norma con la que Bruselas obliga a las grandes plataformas online a vigilar lo que se vende y se publica en ellas. La investigación, abierta en marzo de 2024, ha concluido que los sistemas de detección de AliExpress "no funcionaban correctamente": muchos pro

Europe needs to avoid relying on an unpredictable Washington for strategic capabilities, says Henna Virkkunen

Europe wants its own technology champions. It just seems less comfortable with what champions look like once they arrive. The European Commission’s latest Digital Markets Act (DMA) decisions capture that tension. Europe wants more innovation, investment, and globally competitive digital platforms. Yet when a company assembles the data, technology, distribution, and complementary services needed to ... Europe Wants Tech Champions, Then Makes Them Share the Trophy The post Europe Wants Tech Champi

The CNIL’s recommendation of 12 March 2026, which was published on 14 April 2026 and applicable from that date, provides detailed guidance on the legal framework applicable to email tracking pixels. While the applicability of ePrivacy rules to tracking pixels had already been recognised at European level, notably through the EDPB’s interpretation of Article 5(3) [...] The post France: Email Tracking Pixels — What the CNIL’s Recommendation Changes in Practice appeared first on Connect On Tech .

The Italian prime minister said the deal is a “recognition of Italian defense industry but also of how Europe can reinforce its autonomy by investing in its own technological capacity and companies.”

Die EU-Kommission hat Leitlinien zur Kennzeichnung von KI-Inhalten verabschiedet. Ab August müssen Anbieter KI-generierte Inhalte transparent ausweisen.

Digital Talent EU Days 2026 in Dublin Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 07/20/2026 - 15:02   15 October 2026 - 16 October 2026   Trinity Business School, Dublin, Ireland The Digital Talent EU Days will host a debate on Europe’s digital skills challenges and drive action on talent, competitiveness and inclusion. Digital Talent EU Days On 15 and 16 October, LEADSx2030 and Connecting Women in Digital , in partnership with the European Commission, National Coalitions , agencies and local partn

These EU AI Act provisions will start to apply on August 2 | Edition #307

La Comisión Europea publica las directrices sobre transparencia para sistemas de inteligencia artificial como los populares chatbots y para detectar ‘deepfakes’ que entrarán en vigor el 2 de agosto