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Publishers accuse Google's AI summaries of reducing traffic and revenue, sparking EU complaints. Google denies sole responsibility for traffic changes, highlighting tech-content creator tensions.....

Independent publishers accuse Google of misusing AI summaries in search results, harming their traffic and revenue. Google defends, citing new opportunities.....

EU rejects tech giants' request to delay AI Act, maintaining schedule. The Act categorizes AI by risk level: banned (e.g., social scoring), strict regulation (e.g., biometrics), or transparency. Full enforcement starts 2026 with no extensions.....

Meta Platforms, Inc. has announced plans to use user data from its European Union applications, including Facebook and Instagram, to train its artificial intelligence models. The company clarified that the training data will include users' public posts, comments, and interactions with Meta AI, but will exclude private messages with friends and family. Training will be limited to users aged 18 and over. Meta stated it will inform its EU users of this plan this week via in-app notifications and emails.

Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced an investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X (formerly Twitter) over concerns that it may have used publicly available posts from EU users to train its Grok AI chatbot without transparency or legal basis. The investigation centers on XIUC (X Internet Unlimited Company) becoming the official controller of EU user data from April 1, 2023, previously under the name Twi…

Meta recently announced it will resume training its AI models using publicly available content from European users. This decision follows a pause last year due to data privacy concerns. Meta stated that this AI training will primarily rely on publicly shared posts and comments from adult users across the 27 EU countries. Furthermore, interactions between users and Meta AI, such as questions and queries, will also be used to train and improve its AI models. Image attribution: Image generated by AI, image licensing provided by Midj

Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched a significant investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform, X. The investigation centers on whether X used European users' personal data to train its AI chatbot, Grok, without their consent. Under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), companies must obtain explicit consent before processing user data; violations can result in substantial fines. The DPC has stated that a thorough examination will be conducted.

The EU recently announced a €20 billion (approximately £17 billion) plan to establish multiple AI factories across Europe, equipped with high-performance computing resources to drive the development of next-generation AI models. This strategy aims to establish Europe as an "AI continent." According to EU Commission Vice-President Henna Virkkunen, AI is crucial for enhancing Europe's competitiveness, security, and technological sovereignty in the face of intense global competition. Currently, the US and...

The US Department of Labor is investigating Scale AI, a prominent data labeling company, over allegations concerning employee rights and compensation. The investigation follows reports of disputes between the company and its employees regarding fair wages and working conditions.

In recent years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, especially driven by countries like the United States and China, has made AI a focal point of global technological competition. To this end, the EU recently announced a funding program of up to 200 billion euros to promote development in this field. Despite Germany's strong capabilities in AI research, why hasn't a single successful AI enterprise emerged? Source: Image generated by AI, image courtesy of service provider Midjourney according to Professor Bjorn from the University of Munich.

Against the backdrop of increasing global competition in AI, the EU has officially announced an unprecedented artificial intelligence investment plan. Today at the AI Action Summit in Paris, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen formally unveiled a grand initiative called 'Invest AI', showcasing the EU's strong determination in global AI competition. This investment plan, with a total scale of €200 billion, notably includes a dedicated €20 billion European Fund for the construction of AI gigafactories. This decision marks the EU's official entry into large-scale AI development.

Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, publicly shared a letter from the U.S. Senate regarding concerns over the large donations made by OpenAI and other tech companies during the Trump election period. The letter was revealed late at night, sparking widespread discussion. It mentions that since Trump's election, large tech companies like OpenAI have donated millions to his inauguration fund, raising concerns in the Senate. They believe that such large donations may be an attempt to influence the upcoming election.

In terms of artificial intelligence (AI) regulation, the UK government has expressed a desire to take an independent stance and plans to adopt different approaches from its main Western counterparts, such as the EU and the US. UK AI and Digital Government Minister Feryal Clark emphasized in an interview with CNBC that the UK must 'do its own thing' to ensure necessary regulations are in place early on regarding the safety of AI models. Image source note: The image was generated by AI and provided by the image service provider Midjourney.

Recently, as Nvidia announced the acquisition of the Israeli workload management startup Run.ai, several civil organizations and think tanks in Europe have called for the EU Commission to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the deal. The specific amount of the acquisition has not been disclosed, but reports state that after four rounds of financing since its founding in 2018, Run.ai reached a valuation of $700 million. Image source note: The image is AI-generated, with licensing provided by Midjourney. Run.ai's core product is a central user interface and control platform that allows users.

Teuken-7B, a language model with 7 billion parameters, has now been launched on Hugging Face, supporting all 24 official EU languages. This model was developed by the EU OpenGPT-X research project and is available as an open-source project for users. Unlike most AI language models that are English-centric, Teuken-7B was built from the ground up, with approximately half of its training data sourced from non-English European languages. Image source note: The image is AI-generated.

Recently, a special committee report from the Australian Senate revealed that tech companies Amazon, Google, and Meta (formerly Facebook) have been ambiguous and disappointing in their approach to using Australian data to train their AI products. Committee chair and Labor Senator Tony Sheldon expressed strong dissatisfaction, stating that these multinational companies continually evade direct questions during hearings, as if they are performing a cheap magic trick, but ultimately achieving nothing.