EU lawmakers are making progress on plans for some less controversial amendments to the bloc's AI law, including AI literacy, sensitive data processing and enforcement, while divisive issues such as l...

India is using its AI Impact Summit this week to propose new governance bodies, which prompted EU concerns of duplication with existing UN structures. After initial unease over implied commitments in ...

EU governments will discuss adding two new bans to the AI Act to prohibit generative AI systems from producing sexual deepfakes and child sexual abuse material. The proposal, debated under the amendme...

EU governments have refined the AI Act’s centralized enforcement model in a new redraft of the legislative amendments, consolidating the AI Office’s powers while adding due process guarantees. The tex...

EU lawmakers are divided on how to regulate sexual deepfakes in amendments to the AI Act. Some centrist and left-wing lawmakers back a ban limited to non-consensual content, while Greens and others se...

The European Commission has identified its 2026 priorities for implementing the AI Act, focusing on procedural rules for general-purpose AI models, regulatory sandboxes and the AI Office’s market surv...

Leading European Parliament lawmakers Arba Kokalari and Michael McNamara want fixed deadlines for delayed AI Act high-risk obligations, removing the European Commission’s discretion to advance them. T...

A growing group of EU countries including Spain, France, Ireland and Slovenia is backing a ban in the AI Act on generating sexualized deep fakes and non-consensual intimate content, prompted by the Gr...

Several EU countries are pushing back against the European Commission’s plans to centralize AI Act enforcement in its AI Office, arguing that it would undermine national regulatory powers. Italy, Germ...

European governments led by Ireland have called for the European Commission to give specific consideration to law enforcement uses of artificial intelligence such as biometric identification in the EU...

EU governments are moving toward a fixed timeline for delayed AI Act high-risk obligations in a first compromise text on the AI amendment package, removing the European Commission’s ability to trigger...

France is seeking support among EU countries to split proposed AI Act amendments from a time-sensitive delay of key obligations, aiming to allow deeper reforms. The French government is testing the wa...

The European Commission plans to expand EU cybersecurity certification schemes to cover companies’ overall risk-management posture, under a revised Cybersecurity Act due on Jan. 20. Draft rules would ...

The European Commission will clarify in upcoming guidelines what documentation AI developers must produce to show their systems fall outside the AI Act’s high-risk regime. The guidance will explain ho...

An initiative announced in November to create a leading Europe-based center for developing the frontiers of artificial intelligence has attracted backing from 30 top researchers, according to an inter...

EU governments aim to reach a negotiating position by late March or early April on amendments to the bloc's AI Act following initial legislative discussions. Removing the registration requirement is p...

The European Commission is considering a mandatory phase-out of ICT equipment from Chinese vendors like Huawei and ZTE from critical infrastructure in the revised Cybersecurity Act due on Jan. 14, MLe...

The European AI Office will now have a head of AI safety after Matthieu Delescluse was appointed to the role, the European Commission has said. The crucial post has been vacant since the office was se...

EU lawmakers approved a resolution on AI in the workplace but removed a call for a legislative initiative after opposition led by the center-right European People's Party. The report still urges the E...

The European Parliament has settled its internal dispute over who will lead work on the AI Act amendments, confirming joint leadership by the Internal Market and Civil Liberties committees. Political ...

Manufacturers of medical devices would see compliance with the EU AI Act's high-risk regime eased under a European Commission proposal. Part of a broader update to medical-device laws, it reflects lon...

A possible standalone proposal to delay the EU AI Act’s high-risk regime is under consideration in the European Commission to cover the possibility that its recently unveiled broader package of amendm...

France is pushing for common EU-wide technical specifications to label and detect AI-generated content, warning that proprietary tools from mostly non-European developers would create critical depende...

Two European Parliament committees have challenged plans for the passage of amendments to the EU's artificial intelligence law, an early sign that internal wrangling could slow the pace of the legisla...

A planned delay for key EU AI Act duties has come under question from member states, which warn that the European Commission's proposed approach lacks clear criteria, predictability and sufficient inv...

An overwhelming majority of lawmakers on the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee declined to challenge the AI Liability Directive's withdrawal in a vote on Wednesday. Solid opposition from t...

Whether to propose binding rules on AI in the workplace or not is a question still causing division in the European Commission. EU social affairs chief Roxana Mînzatu favors legislation, but she faces...

The European Commission is preparing a single implementing act to set out procedures for enforcing the AI Act’s rules on general-purpose AI models. The implementing regulation will define how investig...

The European AI Board will likely extend its rotating chair system until June 2026, as plans to move toward an election-based system have stalled, and discussions on a permanent leadership structure a...

EU lawmakers on the Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee will vote next week on whether to challenge the European Commission’s withdrawal of the AI Liability Directive. The decision, which mirrors a s...

A study found that poetic prompts can bypass safety features in leading AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others, triggering instructions for building chemical weapons and malware. The rese...

The Commission is proposing targeted simplification measures to ensure timely, smooth, and proportionate implementation of certain of the AI Act’s provisions.

The European Commission will propose a postponement of the entry into application of the AI Act's requirements on high-risk AI systems, with a final decision on the exact length — likely to be between...

The European Commission is delaying the launch of technical standards for the AI Act’s rules on general-purpose AI models, opting to first test the existing code of practice. The move could leave comp...

A new crisis protocol for online services and guidance on the use of artificial intelligence in electoral processes is being prepared as part of a broader EU effort to counter information manipulation...

The European Commission’s AI Office plans to hire an additional 53 staff as part of a plan to centralize enforcement of the bloc's AI law and manage a regulatory sandbox, MLex has learned.

Amendments to the EU's AI Act to be proposed on Nov. 19 look to include easing compliance burdens and centralizing enforcement through the European Commission's AI Office. An early draft, obtained by ...

EU digital chief Henna Virkkunen shared the European Commission’s initial views, prompting questions on whether  AI agents always qualify as AI systems under the AI Act. Lawmaker Sergey Lagodinsky ask...

The European Commission is close to presenting an amendment to the GDPR that would codify “legitimate interest” as the legal basis for training AI systems with personal data. The proposal is currently...

The European AI Board, the body that brings together AI regulators in the EU, appears headed for a staged internal reform, according to internal documents obtained by MLex. National representatives ar...

A European declaration on digital sovereignty is due to be signed by EU member states at a Franco-German summit in Berlin on Nov. 18, marking a key policy staging post in the bloc's drive to take grea...

EU lawmaker Sergey Lagodinsky has lodged a complaint with the EU Ombudsman, alleging that the European Commission’s code of practice for general-purpose AI models is not aligned with the AI Act’s ener...

Germany’s digital ministry is pushing for a one-year delay and major relaxations to the EU AI Act, including lighter obligations for SMEs, removal of the fundamental rights impact assessment, and broa...

International standardization bodies ISO and IEC have turned down the parallel development of two much-needed standards for the EU AI Act with European counterparts CEN and Cenelec after the latter ab...

OpenAI, xAI and Mistral could be open to legal risk after the findings of a Dutch privacy probe into election advice this week appeared to expose early violations of the EU AI Act’s rules for general-...

The European standardization bodies in charge of developing the AI Act's standards have taken the unprecedented decision to suspend their usual consensus-driven process and tasked selected experts wit...

The European Commission has unveiled an internal “cloud sovereignty framework” to reduce reliance on foreign cloud providers, setting out eight sovereignty objectives and assessment criteria. Though l...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has surpassed 120 million monthly users in the EU, crossing the 45 million threshold that could see it designated as a “systemic risk” search engine under the Digital Services Act. Th...