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Rome’s Gentiloni trap
Ursula von der Leyen’s gift to Rome might yet turn out to be a poisoned chalice. The nomination of former Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni for economy commissioner in the next European Commission has...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament calls for a ban on facial recognition
The European Parliament today called for a ban on police use of facial recognition technology in public places, and on predictive policing, a controversial practice that involves using AI tools in...
View ArticleConsumer group slams EU food forum as the ‘Italy show’
A major debating platform in Brussels where MEPs and industry lobbyists discuss EU food policy stands accused of being an engine for Italian interests. The controversy over the European Food Forum...
View ArticleEx-Google AI ethics chief: Boost worker power to curb harmful AI
Governments need to curb the power of tech companies and increase the power of workers in order to safeguard people from unsafe uses of artificial intelligence, Google’s former AI ethics chief Timnit...
View ArticleDavid Sassoli: European Parliament mourns president with personal touch
As they mourned the death of their president, David Sassoli, members of the European Parliament recalled with fondness a leader who won friends across the political spectrum with charm and a human...
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Europe’s most influential tech players — ranked
Europe’s most influential tech players — ranked CLASS OF 2022 Introducing POLITICO’s Tech 28 list of the people steering and shaping policy in Europe. Illustration by Jay Vollmar for POLITICO Welcome...
View ArticleBrando Benifei and Dragoș Tudorache
As the European Union lays out the world’s first artificial intelligence rulebook, a duo of lawmakers has been at the center of some of the most controversial and sensitive negotiations that could end...
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ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI
Artificial intelligence’s newest sensation — the gabby chatbot-on-steroids ChatGPT — is sending European rulemakers back to the drawing board on how to regulate AI. The chatbot dazzled the internet in...
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Milan mayor wins EU support for anti-Meloni campaign
BRUSSELS — The mayors of Milan, Rome, Naples and Turin are accusing Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of discrimination by denying same-sex parents recognition as legal guardians. Milan’s...
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News outlets fear ChatGPT could steal their scoops
BRUSSELS — News publishers face a conundrum: How to stop AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT from freeloading their content. Such outlets have the right to claim “fair compensation” from tech platforms...
View ArticleEU lawmakers: We’re coming for ChatGPT
BRUSSELS — Key lawmakers working on the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act have promised to lay down rules to rein in general-purpose AI systems powering tools like ChatGPT. In an open letter Monday,...
View ArticleTransparency push draws EU lawmakers’ tech perks out of the shadows
A global telecoms lobby with key files in the European Parliament gifted eight tech-focused EU lawmakers tickets to an annual innovation confab that are worth thousands of euros, an analysis by...
View ArticleFacial-recognition ban gets lawmakers’ backing in AI Act vote
BRUSSELS — Europe got closer to a full-on ban on facial recognition in public spaces and reining in ChatGPT after lawmakers adopted a strengthened version of the EU’s artificial intelligence rulebook...
View ArticleItaly pauses for Berlusconi’s funeral
ROME — The death of Silvio Berlusconi has brought Italy to a standstill. The government declared a day of national mourning on Wednesday, when a state funeral will be held for the former prime...
View ArticleForget ChatGPT: Facial recognition emerges as AI rulebook’s make-or-break issue
The battle brewing over artificial intelligence in Brussels is about facial recognition. On Wednesday, the European Parliament’s plenary passed its version of the Artificial Intelligence Act after two...
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Like an uncool nightclub: Top EU tweeters don’t love Elon Musk’s big Twitter...
Twitter is dead; long live … X? It’s been less than a week since Elon Musk rebranded his microblogging platform Twitter as X. As part of the shift, Musk replaced Twitter’s iconic blue bird with a...
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Rishi Sunak promised big on his AI summit. He’s running out of time to deliver
LONDON — When Rishi Sunak announced in June that Britain would host the world’s “first major global summit” on AI safety later this year, it was meant to signal the U.K.’s leadership in the race to...
View ArticleEU negotiators strike political deal on AI Act
BRUSSELS — Members of the European Parliament, EU member countries represented by the Council, and experts from the European Commission have clinched a political deal on the Artificial Intelligence...
View ArticleEU balks at Microsoft’s deal with French AI startup
BRUSSELS — A partnership between technology giant Microsoft and French startup Mistral has drawn criticism in Europe — and made the two firms new enemies in Brussels. The deal, announced Monday, means...
View ArticleHow one woman is trying to wrest the birth rate issue from the right
Over the past few years, the right has monopolized fretting over the state of Europe’s stagnant birth rate. Viktor Orbán, Elon Musk, Giorgia Meloni — all have issued dire warnings on the fate of the...
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