The Cybersecurity Act revision and the Digital Networks Act have been postponed to Jan. 20, following negative opinions by the Regulatory Scrutiny Board.

Strong words in this joint statement of Germany's 17 state-level DPAs about the national law implementing the EU AI Act, accusing the Federal Government of weakening fundamental rights protection.

The European Commission has, for the first time, publicly acknowledged that no enforcement of the AI Act will start before August 2026. The AI Act's staggered timeline is more fiction than reality.

Italy, Spain & Portugal are calling for "absolute transparency regarding data used in GPAI models" in an information point scheduled for a ministerial meeting next week, while urging coordinated action to ensure the sustainability of the cultural and creative industries.

🔴Integrating DeepSeek into online platforms might result in breaching the Digital Services Act, EVP Virkkunen said. The DSA "protects freedom of expression & information... DeepSeek models are subject to ideological censorship and is therefore in conflict with EU’s principles."

For those looking for the AI Act compliance questions in the Apply AI Strategy public consultation, they are well hidden and only appear if you select that you are a business in the scope of the AI Act.

The AI Continent Action Plan has made its appearance on the European Commission's college agenda.

If anyone will ever compile a ranking of the EU's lamest statements, this one should top the charts. Here the Commission doesn't even commit to saying that AI-powered bots on social media SHOULD be covered in the risk assessments under the DSA, just that they could.

This didn't age very well! Commissioner McGrath replied to MEPs defending the AI Liability Directive on the same day the Commission decided to withdraw it! "Legal certainty regarding liability is important for reducing risks and encouraging businesses... to invest in AI."

When you get a document half of Brussels is looking for, think you have a scoop, then open it and read this. The final word on the ePrivacy Regulation has not been written (yet).

Today's meeting between the MEPs of the AI working group and the European Commission's Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen was canceled because of delays during the plenary session. The meeting was postponed to next week, with the date still to be confirmed.
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Important announcement today with AFP and Mistral AI forging a global partnership. The news agency has agreed to feed its editorial content in six languages to Mistral's conversational AI assistant, Le Chat.

The Polish presidency set out its approach for the AI factories in a discussion paper. The Poles also outlined their vision for making Europe the AI continent, focusing on sovereign cloud capacity and investing in energy-efficient hardware and software solutions.
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