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EU lawmakers voted to shield colleagues from Belgium’s Huawei corruption probe

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More than a year after Belgian prosecutors asked the European Parliament to lift the immunity of four lawmakers suspected of taking bribes from Huawei lobbyists, the Parliament has voted to keep those protections in place, Politico reported. The decision shields the accused MEPs from questioning by Belgian investigators, who cannot compel testimony or gather key evidence […]

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Europe wants to make sure no one has a kill switch over its technology

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When the Trump administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor earlier this year, Microsoft cancelled his email account. The incident was brief and bureaucratic. It was also, for European policymakers, clarifying. If a single American company could cut off a senior international official’s communications at the stroke of a pen, what else could be […]

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The EU is asking households to cut electricity use during peak hours because AI data centres are straining the grid

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The European Commission has called on households across the bloc to reduce electricity consumption during peak hours, citing the rapid growth of AI data centres, accelerating electrification, and rising overall digital infrastructure demand as factors straining European power grids. The Commission simultaneously published a Data Centre Energy Efficiency Package on 3 June that introduces a […]

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EU tech sovereignty package: chip emergency powers and curbs on US cloud

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The Commission’s ‘AI continent’ rhetoric sits atop draft laws that would let it override chip supply contracts and keep US providers away from sensitive government data. The European Commission unveiled its long-delayed technological sovereignty package on Wednesday, a bundle of four measures meant to loosen the bloc’s dependence on American and Asian technology across semiconductors, […]

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UK regulator imposes new rules on Google search, including an AI-training opt-out

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Britain’s competition regulator has stopped consulting and started ordering. On Wednesday the Competition and Markets Authority imposed new conduct requirements on Google’s search services, the first concrete obligations to follow from its decision to designate the company as holding strategic market status. Among them is a provision with sharp implications for the AI era: publishers will […]

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Trump quietly signs a downsized AI executive order asking companies to voluntarily submit models for review 30 days before release

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President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday establishing a voluntary framework for government review of frontier AI models before public release, ending weeks of internal White House conflict over how aggressively to regulate the technology. The order, titled “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security,” was signed privately without the usual livestream or public ceremony, a […]

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Poland will introduce a “sovereignty test” for government tech purchases as Tusk warns AI dependency has reached dangerous proportions

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced that Poland will introduce a “sovereignty test” for significant government purchases of technology solutions, warning that the country’s dependency on foreign digital infrastructure has reached a scale that demands a policy response. Speaking at the European Financial Congress in Sopot on Tuesday, Tusk said Poland will also publish […]

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The EU’s €20 billion plan for five AI gigafactories is falling apart before the first bid is even submitted

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The European Union’s plan to build five massive AI data centres, each with one gigawatt of capacity and approximately 100,000 advanced chips, is stumbling before it starts. The bidding process, originally scheduled for May, has been pushed to July. A lack of funding clarity means only two of the five planned centres can receive money […]

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Palo Alto Networks shareholders have rejected executive pay seven times, and the CEO still earns nearly $100 million

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A majority of Palo Alto Networks shareholders have voted against the cybersecurity company’s executive compensation packages seven times since 2015, a record that makes it the most rejected pay programme in the S&P 500 and the third-most in the Russell 3000. The most recent vote came in December, when less than half of shareholders supported a […]

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The world’s mathematicians just issued a formal declaration telling AI companies to stop using their work without permission

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A coalition of mathematicians from institutions including Oxford, Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Columbia, and Northwestern has published a formal declaration calling on the mathematical community to confront the threats that artificial intelligence poses to their discipline. The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, released on Monday and endorsed by the International Mathematical Union, is the most […]

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