Brussels strikes deal to thin out AI Act and outlaw nudification apps
Brussels strikes deal to thin out AI Act and outlaw nudification apps

After two failed trilogues, Parliament and Council finally landed a compromise that pushes the high-risk compliance deadline to December 2027, lightens paperwork for smaller firms, and writes a long-promised ban on non-consensual intimate imagery into …

Why Nexus Luxembourg has become a fixture in Europe’s AI calendar
Why Nexus Luxembourg has become a fixture in Europe’s AI calendar

On 10–11 June, the Grand Duchy hosts the third edition of its flagship tech summit, weeks before the EU AI Act’s most consequential provisions enter into force. Here is what the event has become, and why it matters this year in particular. Luxembourg, …

Google offers EU concessions on news-search ranking to head off a fresh DMA fine
Google offers EU concessions on news-search ranking to head off a fresh DMA fine

The proposals filed in Brussels aim to settle the European Commission’s investigation into whether Google has been demoting publishers’ pages with third-party advertising content. Failure to settle could expose Alphabet to penalties up to 10 per cent o…

Chinese chamber of commerce puts a $432bn price tag on the EU’s cybersecurity overhaul
Chinese chamber of commerce puts a $432bn price tag on the EU’s cybersecurity overhaul

A KPMG-conducted study commissioned by the CCCEU estimates that phasing Chinese suppliers out of 18 critical EU sectors between 2026 and 2030 would cost €367.8bn. Reuters’ headline rounds that down. The actual figure is materially higher. China’s chamb…

Google’s top differential-privacy scientist tells the EU its data-sharing plan can be reversed in two hours
Google’s top differential-privacy scientist tells the EU its data-sharing plan can be reversed in two hours

Sergei Vassilvitskii, distinguished scientist at Google since 2012, has written to Brussels warning that the Commission’s proposed anonymisation scheme for forced search-data sharing is, by his red team’s own demonstration, breakable in 120 minutes. Th…

Davis raises $5.5m pre-seed to compress real-estate development from months to days
Davis raises $5.5m pre-seed to compress real-estate development from months to days

The Paris-based AI-native real-estate company, founded by Entrepreneurs First alumni Mehdi Rais and Amine Chraibi, has Heartcore and Balderton co-leading the round, an unusual cap-table for a pre-seed. The technical pitch is more interesting than the h…

Tesla ‘FSD’ faces EU regulator skepticism over speeding, safety concerns
Tesla ‘FSD’ faces EU regulator skepticism over speeding, safety concerns

Emails obtained by Reuters from European regulators reveal significant skepticism toward Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system, with officials raising concerns about speeding, icy road safety, and driver distraction — just as the company pushes for EU-wid…

Denmark built Europe’s cleanest grid. AI data centres are overloading it.
Denmark built Europe’s cleanest grid. AI data centres are overloading it.

  Denmark generates more than 80 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources. Its wind farms, both onshore and offshore, have made the country a global model for clean energy transition. Its grid operator, Energinet, has spent decades building t…

Brussels reissues its Huawei warning, six years on, and prepares to make it stick
Brussels reissues its Huawei warning, six years on, and prepares to make it stick

The European Commission has formally recommended that member states keep Huawei and ZTE out of their connectivity infrastructure. The same restrictions are now moving toward becoming legally binding. China has already threatened to retaliate. When the …

Europe’s finance chiefs want Mythos access to defend their banks. Washington has so far said no.
Europe’s finance chiefs want Mythos access to defend their banks. Washington has so far said no.

An Anthropic AI model that can find zero-days in every major operating system has become a geopolitical and prudential question. The Eurogroup met in Brussels on Monday with no answer in hand. Brussels on a Monday morning in early May is not, by tradit…