Maximilian Henning

You’ll get to give feedback on the guidelines for classifying high-risk AI systems sometime this month, the Commission told me.

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-fails-to-produce-high-risk-ai-guidelines-on-time/

My plea to European politicians to at least be present on a European social network – which already exists today.

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https://www.euractiv.com/opinion/the-brief-if-youre-tired-of-truth-social-try-mastodating/

Have a look at which EU lawmakers will be working on the AI omnibus – and trying to finish Parliament’s report within less than two months.

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/parliament-assembles-ai-omnibus-team-eyes-quick-process/

Startups, scientists and satellite producers will profit from today’s trade deal with India, says @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu – plus, maybe it’ll save your e-mail inbox from some spam.

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/eu-and-india-to-work-together-on-startups-and-research/

Cyprus seems to have heard the protests against exempting some high-risk AI systems from having to register in an EU database. Let’s simplify the process instead, a first Council compromise text on the AI omnibus now proposes.

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/council-opposes-high-risk-database-carve-out-in-first-ai-omnibus-draft/

AI is making its way into Europe’s administrations – provoking the same questions around sovereignty that have accompanied public cloud deals for years.

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/how-europes-governments-are-using-genai/

Authors, artists and other creatives are still not happy with the situation around copyright and AI, spotlighted by info on training data which is currently still missing in action.

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/missing-ai-training-data-summaries-feed-smouldering-copyright-debate/

Countries are seeing eye to eye on many parts of the AI omnibus package. But one of the Commission’s proposals – exempting some companies building AI systems from having to register them in an EU database – is more controversial.

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/countries-split-on-weakening-eus-ai-act-system-register/

Companies releasing new AI models need to publish info on what data they used to train them under EU rules. But that info seems to be missing for several large AI models released since last August.

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/ai-companies-are-not-being-as-transparent-as-the-eu-wants/

The @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu is drafting guidelines to temporarily stand in for the much-delayed AI Act standards, should they still not be ready for their yet-to-be-formally-delayed 2027 deadline.

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-writing-transitional-ai-guidelines-to-step-in-if-standards-miss-2027-deadline/

The Grok scandal keeps heating up. Now @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu President Ursula von der Leyen herself is hitting out at Elon Musk allowing women and children to be digital undressed on his platform – and threatening EU action.

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/von-der-leyen-appalled-at-grok-undressing-women-and-children/

The @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu will soon present “a combination of funding and policy measures” to support European open source projects in becoming commercially viable alternatives to proprietary US tech.

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-wants-to-commercialise-open-source-for-sovereignty/

The US might soon get access to Europeans’ biometric data – like fingerprints and facial scans – which it wants to keep allowing visa-free travel to the country. EU governments have already given their OK to start talks.

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/eu-countries-gear-up-to-let-us-tap-their-citizens-biometrics/

Three-euro customs fees are coming for your cheap online orders – but only in July, so no worries for this Christmas.

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/cheap-parcels-to-face-e3-charge-at-eu-border-from-july-2026/

New EU competition case against Google just dropped.

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-investigates-google-over-training-ai-without-paying-creators/

Germany’s Karsten Wildberger played the role of lead hawk on further simplifying the EU’s tech rules on Friday. Some countries backed him up, others urged caution.

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/councils-simplification-hawks-smell-blood-on-ripping-up-tech-rules/

An EU employment law planned for next year could look at AI managing workers and remote work, the @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu said today – details to be decided.

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-could-propose-rules-for-ai-bosses-and-remote-work-next-year/

A group of lawmakers has called on the European Parliament to use more EU software and hardware, namechecking a whole host of solutions which they say can replace the current – dominantly US – tech suite.

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/parliament-must-buy-european-it-lawmakers-tell-metsola/

After months of debate, the @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu has officially proposed delaying rules for high-risk AI systems. That’ll now kick off new months of debate in Council and especially in Parliament.

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-proposes-delaying-key-part-of-eus-ai-rules/