On April 28, 2025, the European Commission announced that the EU AI Office is launching a €9.08 million tender for monitoring compliance and assessing systemic risks of General-Purpose AI (GPAI) models. The call for tenders relates to the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, which entered into force on August 1,
The European Commission has detailed a €20 billion (£17 billion) plan to create new AI gigafactories in Europe for developing next-generation artificial intelligence models. These facilities will be powered by up to 100,000 advanced AI processors and target significant innovations in healthcare, biotech, industry, robotics, and scientific discovery. The
In early April 2025, the European Commission officially prohibited AI-powered virtual assistants from participating in its online meetings, first implementing the ban during a video conference with representatives from a network of digital policy support offices across Europe, where an "Online Meeting Etiquette" slide clearly stated: "No
On 9 April 2025, the European Commission unveiled the AI Continent Action Plan, aimed at revitalising Europe’s artificial intelligence industry and enhancing its competitiveness against the United States and China. The plan focuses on five key areas, including developing a large-scale AI computing infrastructure, increasing access to high-quality data,
The European Commission is set to propose simplifications to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), introduced in 2018, focusing primarily on reducing administrative burdens for small and medium-sized enterprises in the coming weeks. The planned amendments aim to enhance the competitiveness of European businesses while preserving the GDPR’s core
European Union regulators are preparing to impose significant penalties on Elon Musk's social media platform X for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA), which could include a fine exceeding $1 billion and forced product changes. The EU investigation launched in 2023 found that X broke the law by
On 11 March 2025, the third draft of the EU General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice was published, raising significant concerns among industry stakeholders and legal experts. Designed for providers of GPAI models like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Midjourney, the Code aims to assist businesses in complying with the EU
The American tech giant Microsoft announced in February 2025 the completion of its EU Data Boundary for Microsoft Cloud sovereignty project, enabling European customers’ data to remain within the EU and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) regions. The multi-year, three-phase engineering project covers Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and
The conflicting relationship between two key European Union regulations—the EU AI Act and the GDPR—creates significant legal uncertainty regarding the non-discriminatory application of artificial intelligence. According to a February 2025 analysis by the European Parliament Research Service, this issue is particularly pronounced in the case of high-risk AI
Brendan Carr, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), delivered a sharp critique of the European Union’s digital regulation, particularly the Digital Services Act (DSA), during a speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on 3 March 2025. Carr accused the DSA of restricting free speech,
The European Parliament and Council adopted Regulation (EU) 2025/327 on the European Health Data Space (EHDS) on 11 February 2025, which was subsequently published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 5 March 2025. This regulation transforms the use of health data across the EU, establishing the
EuroBERT, the newly developed multilingual encoder model family, marks a significant advancement in modern language technology. It enables more efficient processing of 15 European and global languages, handling sequences of up to 8,192 tokens. Officially introduced on 10 March 2025, the EuroBERT family was trained on a dataset of
