Tag: European Commission

EU plans tech scale-up fund to narrow gap with US, China

Posted on   |  by Philip Blenkinsop
The European Commission plans to create a public-private fund of at least €10 billion euros (A$17.5 billion) to help tech companies scale up as the European Union aims to...

Europeans move to supercharge AI capability, ease regulation

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The European Union will spend €200 billion (A$366 billion) supercharging its AI development and deployment capabilities, investing in a new generation of AI data centres and relaxing AI regulation....

Airbus and EU tech firms want sovereign fund, buy European plan

Posted on   |  by Foo Yun Chee
Airbus, Dassault Systèmes and more than 90 smaller European technology companies and lobby groups have urged European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to create a sovereign infrastructure fund to...

US chip curbs put Australia in AI inner circle

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia is one of a select few countries exempt from sweeping new controls to limit the export of US-developed advanced computing chips and sharing of closed-weight AI models as...

Apple mobile payments tech is flung open in Europe

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Apple will be legally required to open up its mobile payment technology to third parties in Europe after regulators raised antitrust concerns over several years. The change provides the...

Apple pinged by EU competition laws Australia wants to mimic

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Apple is in breach of new European competition laws, regulators alleged this week, setting up the first test of the Big Tech ‘gatekeeper’ regime that Australia’s competition watchdog wants...