The Court of Justice of the European Union's ruling of 27 February 2025 in case C-203/22 declared that data subjects are entitled to receive an understandable explanation about the logic behind automated credit assessment decisions. The case originated from a dispute between CK and Dun & Bradstreet
On 19 March 2025, the European Commission announced antitrust proceedings against Google and Apple for violations of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump is threatening the EU with tariffs in response to its tough stance against American tech giants. The Commission’s investigation found that Google
The European Union launched the EuroStack initiative on 13th February 2025, offering a comprehensive €300 billion strategy to establish Europe's digital independence over the next decade. The plan addresses the critical situation in which more than 80% of Europe's digital infrastructure and technologies come from imports,
The European Commission established the EU Artificial Intelligence Office (AI Office) in January 2024, which began operations with a team of 140 experts. The office plays a key role in implementing the EU AI Act - the world's first comprehensive AI regulatory framework - with a special focus
The European Commission announced on February 11, 2025, the withdrawal of three significant technology regulation proposals, including those on standard essential patents (SEP), artificial intelligence liability, and consumer data protection. Behind the decision are disagreements between EU member states and legislators, as well as intensive industry lobbying. Among the withdrawn
The two-day artificial intelligence summit held in the French capital between February 10-11, 2025, was attended by nearly one hundred countries and more than a thousand stakeholders. French President Emmanuel Macron announced the country's €109 billion AI investment plan at the event. At the meeting co-organized with Indian
The European Parliament adopted the Artificial Intelligence Regulation (EU AI Act) on March 13, 2024, which works closely with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to regulate the development and use of AI systems in the EU. While GDPR primarily focuses on fundamental rights and personal data protection, the EU
A new milestone in European artificial intelligence development is EuroLLM-9B, which debuted on December 2, 2024. The 9 billion parameter, open-source language model supports 35 languages, including all 24 official languages of the European Union. The project aims to promote the preservation of European linguistic diversity in the digital space.
Twenty leading European research institutes, companies, and EuroHPC centres have joined forces to launch the OpenEuroLLM project, which is developing open-source language models with a budget of €52 million to strengthen European digital sovereignty. The initiative, launched on February 1, 2025, is coordinated by Jan Hajič (Charles University, Czech Republic)
The Chinese company DeepSeek made a surprising entrance into the market of ChatGPT and other leading language models in January 2025, creating a new situation for European AI developers as well. The company, founded by Liang Wenfeng in July 2023, has made its advanced language model freely available, aiming to
The Forschungszentrum Jülich research centre hosts Europe's first exascale computer, JUPITER, which can execute one quintillion (10^18) computational operations per second, thereby revolutionising scientific research and complex problem-solving. Exascale computing represents a significant advancement in supercomputer development, as these systems are a thousand times faster than petascale
