Implementation, guidance, enforcement and the fights over Europe's flagship AI law. Coverage from Continental Brief.
EU lawmakers united on international AI cooperation but divided over whether Europe should tighten rules or prioritize industry competitiveness. The debate also reignited calls to revive a shelved liability directive.
The EU's Digital Services Act gave researchers a legal pathway to study social media platforms, but compliance remains patchy. As AI systems grow more powerful and opaque, a similar framework for independent research is urgently needed—yet remains absent.
Over 30 countries, led by Finland and Norway, are calling for stronger frontier AI controls. But building a centralized overseer would be a mistake—the Internet's decentralized model offers a better blueprint.
The European Commission's proposed KIDS Act marks a conceptual shift in how Europe regulates AI for minors, moving beyond harmful outputs to target interaction design itself. But distinguishing helpful engagement from harmful dependency remains deeply uncertain.
The Commission's Scientific Panel on frontier AI safety is meeting to discuss recent loss-of-control cases and deliver recommendations on systemic risks from advanced models.
Over 100 members of Congress have called on Google and Spirit Airlines to abandon a $10 million agreement that would hand the search giant access to the carrier's internal records for artificial intelligence model development.
The EU's Cloud and AI Development Act aims to boost European AI capacity, but critics argue it misunderstands digital sovereignty, threatens fundamental rights, and ignores massive environmental costs.
Vienna is preparing to let artificial intelligence systems issue binding administrative rulings without human review. Civil rights advocates warn the plan ignores fundamental flaws in how large language models work.
eMudhra, one of India's few root certificate authorities recognized by major browsers, is abandoning its SSL/TLS certificate operations following a security failure that exposed eight intermediate certificates with dangerously weak cryptographic keys.
A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for privacy violations stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, after a jury found the company broke state law 43 million times.
On 21 October, public websites in the Netherlands, Finland and elsewhere shut down temporarily after two severe vulnerabilities in PHP triggered urgent patching efforts across government agencies.