Category: Digital and Technology
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AI Now Has to Announce Itself Across Europe
Brussels: A new obligation quietly rewired how Europeans meet machines this week. On 2 August…
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AI Act Enforcement Powers Switch On as Brussels Targets Big Models
Brussels: The AI Act reached a decisive milestone on 2 August 2026, when the European…
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Can 30 Billion Euros Build Europe’s Own AI Compute
Brussels: Europe wants to stop renting its artificial intelligence and start building it, and a…
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AI Transparency Rules Now Reach Every EU Chatbot
A new obligation landed across the European Union this week, and it changes how millions…
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Data Access Rules Reach Connected Cars and Smart Machines
Stuttgart: Every modern car, tractor and factory robot now spins off a constant stream of…
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Seoul and Brussels Sign a Digital Trade Pact With Teeth
Seoul: South Korea and the European Union have moved their partnership past warm words and…
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Europe’s AI Rulebook Gains Teeth as Fines Now Arrive
Brussels: Europe’s landmark artificial intelligence law stopped being a paper promise this week. From 2…
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What Europe Kept and What It Postponed
On 2 August the European Union began requiring companies to tell people when they are…
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Software Makers Get a Rulebook as Cyber Resilience Deadlines Near
Tallinn: Estonia’s software houses have spent years selling the idea that security ships with the…
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Can Labelling Rules Make AI Honest With Europeans?
Brussels: From 2 August, a chatbot that talks to a European has to admit it…
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Singapore Becomes Europe’s Test Bed for Chip Cooperation
Singapore: Europe’s search for reliable technology partners in Asia keeps returning to one small city-state.…
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Cyber Resilience Rules Force Fast Reporting of Product Hacks
Tallinn: A quiet revolution in product safety is about to reach anything with a chip…
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Brussels Wins New Powers to Fine AI Firms Under the AI Act
Brussels: The European Commission gains sweeping enforcement powers under the AI Act from 2 August…
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Seoul and Europe Lock Arms on Chips and Digital Trade
Seoul: South Korea and the European Union are binding their economies more tightly around semiconductors,…
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Makers Race a September Deadline Under the Data Act
Eindhoven: Engineers in the Netherlands’ technology heartland are redrawing product blueprints ahead of a hard…
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Providers Face a Hard Deadline to Sign the AI Transparency Code
Tallinn: Europe’s landmark AI law is moving from drafting rooms into daily practice, and the…
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The AI Act grows teeth as fines arrive for model makers
Dublin: The AI Act stops being a paper tiger on 2 August, the day the…
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Singapore Shows Europe What a Digital Trade Deal Can Deliver
Singapore: Europe likes to write the rules that others end up following, and it has…
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Do Europe’s New AI Labelling Rules Have Teeth
Brussels: From 2 August, Europe expects the machines to own up. That day the transparency…
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Europe’s Chip Cooperation With Taiwan Faces a China Test
Taipei: Europe cannot build a credible semiconductor strategy without Taiwan, and a growing body of…
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AI Act Fines Take Effect for General-Purpose Model Makers
Brussels: The European Commission gains the power to fine providers of general-purpose artificial intelligence models…
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South Korea Anchors Europe’s Search for Chip Security
Seoul: Europe has spent three years learning that its digital ambitions depend on factories it…
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One Rulebook for Telecoms Tests Europe’s Resolve
Tallinn: When the European Commission tabled its Digital Networks Act in January, it framed the…
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Google Pays Europe’s Largest Digital Markets Act Penalty Yet
Brussels: The European Commission fined Google 890 million euros on 23 July 2026 for two…