Tag: European Union

Tech lobby group urges EU leaders to pause AI Act

Posted on   |  by Supantha Mukherjee and Foo Yun Chee
Tech lobbying group CCIA Europe, whose members include Alphabet, Meta and Apple, on Thursday urged European Union to pause implementation of the AI Act, saying a rushed roll-out risks...

Macron to push ban on social media for under-15s

Posted on   |  by Makini Brice
French President Emmanuel Macron will push for European Union regulation to ban social media for children under the age of 15 after a fatal stabbing at a school in...

EU launches new strategy, seeks global digital alliances

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The European Union has launched a new International Digital Strategy with a commitment to promoting a rules-based global digital order and working with like-minded partners to offset a period...

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...

US calls EU fines on Apple and Meta ‘economic extortion’

Posted on   |  by Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh
The White House said on Wednesday that fines on Apple and Meta Platforms by the European Union were a “novel form of economic extortion” that the United States will not...

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....

Nine EU countries align to accelerate chip industry

Posted on   |  by Harshita Mary Varghese
Nine European Union countries are working together to accelerate plans to boost the bloc’s computer chip industry and aim to present their proposals within months, one of the coalition’s...