Global Chief Correspondent, MLEX Market Intelligence, Brussels, Belgium. Views expressed are my own.
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#EUGeneralCourt dismisses Stripchat’s action against its designation as a very large online platform #DSA 👉 curia.europa.eu/site/upload/…
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The New Mexico jury found that @Meta committed an unfair or deceptive trade practice over its statements that Facebook users had control of their data and committed 2.1 million violations — the population of the state of New Mexico.
Breaking: The jury in New Mexico is about to deliver their verdict on whether @Meta violated state law over its #personaldate policies leading up to #CambridgeAnalytica. Stay tuned! Should be out within the next few minutes.
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What California@AGRobBonta Colorado @pweiser & other AGs are saying on the eve of opening statements in 29 States v @Meta #addictivedesign case in Oakland tomorrow oag.ca.gov/news/press-releas… #socialmedia
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🆕🚨The Commission fines AliExpress €550 million for breaching DSA obligations and orders platform to take action
Read more ⬇️ ec.europa.eu/commission/pres…
An important ruling clarifying when a platform’s commercial involvement with content creators may deprive it of the hosting safe harbor in the E-commerce Directive. #dsa
#ECJ: @Google may be held liable for @YouTube videos posted by a content creator linked to it through a commercial partnership 👉 curia.europa.eu/site/upload/…
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Europe represents an economic opportunity, not a security risk. We are and will remain a trusted partner.
This is why we need to cooperate on emerging, powerful AI models. This is a shared global challenge.
This also underlines the need for Europe’s technological sovereignty.
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I welcome the political agreement on our Digital Omnibus on AI.
This provides a simple, innovation-friendly environment for our European AI ecosystem to grow.
At the same time, we are strengthening protections for our citizens.
For safe and simple AI governance in Europe.
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#EUDATA26: Fireside Chat – Breaking Regulatory Silos, with:
‣ Michael König (@EU_Competition; @EU_Commission)
‣ Siún O’Keeffe (Dutch Data Protection Authority)
‣ Maria Goikoetxea (@actonlineEurope)
‣ Moderated by: @NewmanMLex (@mlexclusive)
Fascinating development!
The Commission is weighing a plan B for the AI Act delay. If the omnibus stalls ahead of the August 2026 deadline, a fallback option being considered is to carve out the postponement of high-risk rules into a separate fast-track proposal, MLex has learned.
mlex.com/mlex/articles/24204…
Naïma Moutchou, Vice-President of the National Assembly, has been appointed Minister of Transformation, Public Action, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Technology. #AI shorturl.at/AXPca
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The EU Ombudswoman has opened an inquiry into the AI Act’s standardization process because CEN/CENELEC are not required to disclose the names of participants or publish meeting minutes. The question is whether this could create further delays.
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Former Microsoft CPO Julie Brill sees the EU's AI Act being much less infuential around the world than the GDPR. "I think the 'Brussels Effect' was real for #GDPR. I think the effect we’re going to see on #AI is going to be the US Effect." #AIInstitute
Google, Shein fined total of EUR475 million in French @cnil cookie-rule violations. Penalty against Google is the highest in CNIL's history. tinyurl.com/mryh6frw
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Am sure I heard a huge sigh of relief all the way across from Google headquarters over Judge Amit Mehta's order in the DOJ's search monopolization suit. Disappointment at DOJ HQ might be an understatement.
#antitrust @Google @JusticeATR
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Gotta say, really wise of @HennaVirkkunen to take the high road & not react to Trump's threats on EU tech regulation.
Would be a shame if someone were to issue a salty comment about it & add fuel to the fire of EU-US relations.
cc @ThierryBreton whatcha up to these days?
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NEW: Google signs the EU Code of Practice for GPAI models, and notably, without opting out of the copyright commitments, despite earlier concerns. With OpenAI, Anthropic and Mistral already on board, most "frontier" AI firms have now endorsed the code.
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The Commission has published its guidelines on the AI Act's GPAI rules, setting out the interpretation of provisions for which it will be the sole enforcer. Some elements were anticipated to the AI Board, others are new. My write-up for @mlexclusive.
mlex.com/mlex/articles/23664…
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❗ Interesting move on the AI licensing front. Dutch news publishers have launched a voluntary collective dataset for AI training, an alternative to copyright litigation and exclusive licensing. Discussions are ongoing to scale this model across the EU.
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A well-functioning AI licensing market requires a new legal instrument that ensures transparency & remuneration for copyright-protected works used to develop AI, @AxelVossMdEP told @mlexclusive in an interview ahead of the publication of his draft report
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