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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
Hungary has put forward a concrete proposal for how the EU could strengthen its AI rulebook, reacting to months of never-ending reports about safety incidents.
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
Another setback for #EUInc: Lawmakers failed to close a deal on the project for a second time on Wednesday night. Dealing with specific rights some countries grant their workers again proved the stumbling block. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.rapporteur.com/news/eu-inc-...
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EU Inc again stumbles over workers’ rights in Parliament | Rapporteur
Lawmakers fail to agree deal on crucial economic project for second time
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
Mistral is preparing to take part in an EU push to build AI datacentres – labelled “AI gigafactories” – a representative of Europe’s AI hopeful said in Brussels on Tuesday.
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
In many of the AI security incidents that have recently made headlines, the involved models were lab-internal. A group of advisors has now called on the @ec.europa.eu to make sure there are rules for such cases. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.rapporteur.com/news/eu-advi...
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EU advised to tighten AI law's grip on internal models | Rapporteur
Scientific advisors and MEPs urge Commission to address risks posed by non-public AIs
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
AI models have their own biases for how they answer questions. Elon Musk built Grok to be less “woke”, while Chinese ones toe the communist party line on sensitive topics. But where do European models fit into this? Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.rapporteur.com/news/europea...
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European AIs bit more ‘neutral’ than US or Chinese ones, study finds | Rapporteur
Research into political bias also shows 'debiasing' Chinese models works quite well
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Remember when Hungary last year allowed police to use facial recognition on Pride protestors in Budapest? Civil society then argued this wasn’t in line with the EU’s AI Act, which puts strict limits on the tech.
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
The #EUInc project is facing a delay in Parliament as lawmakers did not reach an overall deal on Monday night. They do however seem to have gotten pretty close apart from one key issue.
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Safety incidents at OpenAI have repeatedly made headlines in the past few weeks. I wrote up how the @ec.europa.eu could turn up the heat to pressure the company into improving its safety practices – if it wants to. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.rapporteur.com/news/how-the...
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How the EU could react to OpenAI’s safety incidents | Rapporteur
As AI Act enforcer, Commission could probe models or order changes
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Some people might think there are no AI model builders outside of the United States and China, but that’s not true. For example, there is Cohere – a Canadian-born company betting strong on Europe in these sovereign times. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.rapporteur.com/news/canadia...
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Canadian-German AI lab eyes building sovereign AI for Europe | Rapporteur
Cohere stands on both sides of the Atlantic after merger with Aleph Alpha
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve got my hands on a draft law on standardisation, which the European Commission is set to propose next week. It aims at improving Europe’s influence on important technologies, and to speed up the writing of standards. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.rapporteur.com/news/draft-s...
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Draft standards law to boost EU sway over strategic tech | Rapporteur
Commission also wants to speed up writing of technical norms, per draft law
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Théophane Hartmann @theophane.euractiv.com · 30/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: France proposes expanding cloud sovereignty law to entire IT sector Expanding the rules would create a massive inflow of public spending into European alternatives @euractiv.com www.rapporteur.com/news/exclusi...
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EXCLUSIVE: France proposes expanding cloud sovereignty law to entire IT sector | Rapporteur
Expanding the rules would create a massive inflow of public spending into European alternatives
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Ursula von der Leyen has charged a special envoy with finding out how to push Europe’s industrial companies into adopting AI, assisted by the Commission’s in-house thinktank.
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
A coalition of trade unions and civil society organisations wants European governments to end all existing contracts with Palantir. Many countries are already reconsidering their ties to the American data analytics company. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/kick-ou...
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Kick out Palantir, trade unions tell European governments | Euractiv
Call to eject US data analytics giant on democratic grounds
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
Trade unions from across Europe on Thursday demonstrated against #EUInc in Brussels. Protestors said they feared social dumping and threats to co-determination. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/trade-u...
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Trade unions protest in Brussels against EU Inc | Euractiv
Participants fear social dumping and threats to co-determination
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
A lot of fears and hopes about AI hinge on whether we’ll get “recursive self-improvement” – models building their own successors, a potentially enormous security risk and also a great advantage for leading AI labs. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei said he’s seeing first signs of it.
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI did not report a recently uncovered safety incident under EU safety rules, the European Commission told me. If you lost track: This is the “RubyGems” incident, first reported last Friday.
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
The world is debating whether AI will kill us all after warnings coming out of American labs. But European and Canadian AI companies are very sceptical – especially of the pitched response. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/europea...
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European AI labs hit back at American ‘doomer bubble’ | Euractiv
Proposal for AI giants to coordinate on rules also branded a “cartel” by critics
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu has just said she’ll invite leading AI labs for talks on pacing the frontier of the tech. The move comes after days of intense, worldwide discussions around AI safety. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/eu-chie...
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EU chief to host safety talks with leading AI labs, per draft speech | Euractiv
Planned invite follows global discussion of AI labs' doomsday predictions
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
You want to know about von der Leyen’s State of the Union speech? We have a draft. Read all about it in @euractiv.com’s liveblog: www.euractiv.com/news/live-vo...
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LIVE: Von der Leyen's SOTEU speech leaked | Euractiv
Euractiv has seen a draft of Ursula von der Leyen's State of the EU' speech
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
A group of luminaries including Margrethe Vestager is pitching key EU countries on setting up a new alliance pooling their leverage on the world’s AI supply chain – and say it should be linked to the EU’s trade bazooka. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/europe-...
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Europe must tighten grip on AI supply chain, experts warn | Euractiv
Vestager among backers of pitch to target EU's trade bazooka at frontier AI access
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
I wrote this before the weekend, but my thoughts still apply after the bosses of several American AI labs aired their safety concerns over the weekend.
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
There are some questions that AI models built by frontier labs won’t answer – for safety reasons. But getting rid of these built-in safeguards has turned into its own field of business. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/ai-jail...
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AI jailbreakers test EU safety rules | Euractiv
Chatbots advertised as having no safeguards are readily available online
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026
The @ombudsman.europa.eu has opened an inquiry into the @ec.europa.eu’s appointing of a “special envoy for industrial AI”. The case is specifically about the EU executive not replying to a letter with questions from civil society. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/eu-watc...
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EU watchdog probes Commission's AI envoy appointment | Euractiv
EU's executive asked to reply to questions about Siemens chairman’s role
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Théophane Hartmann @theophane.euractiv.com · 09/09/2026
As @ec.europa.eu publishes new public procurement rules today, @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social, @steporciello.bsky.social, Thomas Moller-Nielsen and I looked at the range of measures designed to favour EU alternatives over US and Chinese suppliers @euractiv.com www.euractiv.com/news/eu-proc...
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EU procurement blueprints reignite 'European preference' debate | Euractiv
Brussels weighs quotas, local content rules and other ways to favour EU products
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
Capitals have booted a planned central register for #EUInc companies out of their latest legal draft for the project. Lawmakers have so far kept the register in their take, though this is all of course preliminary. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/capital...
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Capitals want to ditch EU Inc's central register | Euractiv
Plan for a register inside bloc's startup reform law faces fresh pushback
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
OpenAI has NOT submitted a report specifically on the “wiki incident” uncovered by Reuters on Friday to the EU, I have now learned. Model developers have to notify serious AI safety incidents under EU rules for the tech. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/ai-safe...
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AI safety incident reporting ‘not just a tick box’, warns EU | Euractiv
Commission remarks follow OpenAI confirming fresh incident with its AI agents
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
On Friday, Reuters reported about a previously unknown safety incident at OpenAI, in which AI agents commandeered a website to exchange messages. I got in touch with the person running that website for his side of the story. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/what-it...
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What it feels like when OpenAI's agents hijack your website | Euractiv
Site owner dealing with AI safety incident tells Euractiv it was like being trolled
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
Is Europe hopelessly behind on AI? Uljan Sharka from Italian AI lab Domyn is more optimistic. He also lays out his company’s business model, which is quite different to that of the American giants. Read my interview at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/the-ita...
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The Italian AI lab with a completely different vision for Europe | Euractiv
Domyn chief says Europe shouldn't follow US in building ever bigger data centres
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026
A third of the EU’s countries have said they’ll try to find common ground ahead of future tech policy discussions on the EU level. The central and eastern Europeans will also coordinate on AI, including maybe on what to buy. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/central...
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Central and eastern European countries set up AI, digital coalition | Euractiv
Nine capitals pledge to coordinate on digital questions ahead of EU-level meetings
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026
Seems this is now the reality we live in: Anthropic is restricting its new Mythos 5.1 update to US organisations, pending further talks with Washington. Europe is left to plead that it’s not a security risk and should get access. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/anthrop...
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Anthropic's Mythos update puts EU back on hold over AI access | Euractiv
Leading US lab says it's in talks with Washington to expand access beyond US
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026
Europe is trying to make AI safer through rules which require labs to check their models for risks and reduce them. But the recent OpenAI hack of Hugging Face has raised questions about a potential gap in what those rules cover. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/ai-labs...
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AI labs’ internal models ‘might’ fall under EU safety rules | Euractiv
Commission hedges on legal question thrown up by OpenAI safety incident
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: The @ec.europa.eu is getting a head start on enforcing European AI rules. It has this week requested information from some AI labs building “the most advanced AI models” on how they secure them, EU tech commissioner Henna Virkkunen has told me.
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 21/08/2026
Some people were quite angry at Anthropic recently after the company said it would start watermarking AI output. One complaint: If text watermarking changes word selection, surely quality will suffer? But experts beg to differ. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/eus-pus...
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EU’s push for watermarking won’t worsen AI writing, experts say | Euractiv
Anthropic's AI transparency efforts under EU rules are sparking debate
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026
ChatGPT users across Europe will start seeing ads when talking to the chatbot next week. OpenAI promises they will be clearly separate from chats, not influence the chat itself, and that it doesn’t sell customer data. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/chatgpt...
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ChatGPT to get ads in first EU countries | Euractiv
AI giant claims ads will be separate from chats and not based on users’ data
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026
European Central Bank experts on Monday wrote that they see a correction of AI-driven stock market highs as “likely” – and warned that while American tech companies are driving the boom, Europe would also feel the bust.
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026
Brussels is full of lobbyists, consultants, whatever you want to call them. My colleagues tried to find out how they feel about AI: Do they fear it coming for their jobs? Read @claudiemoreau.bsky.social and @magnuslundnielsen.bsky.social's article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/lobbyis...
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Lobbyists feel the heat as AI comes for the Brussels bubble | Euractiv
EU public affairs consultancies are starting to integrate artificial intelligence
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026
Europe is very good at talking itself down. Take the quest to build our own sovereign alternatives for the critical tech keeping our public services afloat: It’s easy to say that we will simply never manage to do so.
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026
Unlike other parts of the world, the EU has rules for AI that are publicly written down and that its citizens can actually read. Since this month, those rules can also be enforced in practice, including with fines potentially reaching into the billions.
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Théophane Hartmann @theophane.euractiv.com · 10/08/2026
As Mr Roberto Viola is likely enjoying a well-deserved summer break, let’s wish him a fully recharged return as he prepares to lead the @ec.europa.eu's digital department for a record-breaking 12th consecutive year! Read my @euractiv.com article: www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
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EXCLUSIVE: Commission's digital kingpin extended for twelfth year | Euractiv
Viola's contract, due to expire in September 2026, has been extended to 30 September 2027
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026
Seems we might have our first conflict between the EU and AI labs on our hands: The EU’s AI Office has found “deficiencies” in some developers’ summaries of which data they use to train their models. For some models, no info has been published at all.
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026
In case you missed it: An EU database for high-risk AI systems is only set to be completed in the second half of 2027. That means no registering your systems until then – sidestepping a now somewhat unclear legal timeline. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/eus-hig...
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EU’s high-risk AI database pushed back to mid-to-late 2027 | Euractiv
Message from EU's AI Act service desk, seen by Euractiv, claims it's in line with omnibus changes
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026
I spoke to Chapsvision’s Silvano Sansoni about building a European tech alternative that exists today and now, about growing in new EU countries and what problems he’s still facing when talking to their governments. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/intervi...
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INTERVIEW: Chapsvision, France's Palantir challenger, eyes EU growth | Euractiv
CEO Silvano Sansoni talks about putting tech sovereignty into practice
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026
OpenAI has reported its “unprecedented” security incident with Hugging Face to the EU’s AI Office, the European Commission confirmed today. It’s a key step for Europe’s AI rulebook just as enforcement is set to start next Sunday. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/openai-...
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OpenAI notified EU of Hugging Face hack under AI Act | Euractiv
'Unprecedented' cyber incident is first publicly known AI security breach reported under bloc's law
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026
With the recent news out of OpenAI, it seems like a good point for a reminder that the AI Act will get teeth in just a few days. It’ll be up to a few dozen people in the EU’s AI Office to enforce the law, as models get ever-more capable and tensions run high about who gets access to what tech.
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026
I got my hands on the first Council draft for #EUInc. Capitals could limit which companies can access stock option plans, while options are on the table to refine the project’s scope. Crucially, it sticks with a regulation. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/capital...
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Capitals eye capping EU Inc stock options | Euractiv
Council draft text seen by Euractiv also stipulates plans can't subvert minimum wage
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026
The @ec.europa.eu today put out its final guidelines on AI transparency – just days before the rules they detail will kick in. They contain some interesting changes on editing backgrounds and deepfake-labelling broadcasts. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/eu-give...
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EU gives more wiggle room on labelling AI deepfakes | Euractiv
Advertisers have been pushing for some exemptions to be extended
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 17/07/2026
In case you missed it: #EUInc seemed to weather its first big storm in Council on Wednesday, with many capitals backing its current legal footing. But with some disagreeing, the debate does not seem over yet. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/eu-inc-...
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EU Inc regulation finds support in Council | Euractiv
But unusual key legal basis question not fully settled, with first draft text pending
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026
People who don’t follow Brussels AI policy for a living probably don’t realise, but the EU will soon require deepfakes to be labelled and AI-generated content to be watermarked. Some in Greece may find out in a rather drastic way. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/greeks-...
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Greeks could land in jail for removing AI deepfake labels | Euractiv
Draft law implementing EU's AI Act sets out prison sentence for rule-breakers
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026
Aircraft manufacturer @airbus.com, a European industrial giant, is moving its most critical software systems to a sovereign cloud provided by France’s @scaleway.com. For more cloud news, follow @theophane.euractiv.com. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/airbus-...
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Airbus to fly on French Scaleway’s sovereign cloud | Euractiv
Industrial giant will move most critical applications to Europe
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Maximilian Henning @maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026
China is reportedly thinking about restricting the export of its frontier AI models, following up on the US instating their own slapdash licencing regime. Taken together, they could leave Europe in a quite precarious situation. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/europe-...
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Europe has no answer if China follows the US in limiting its AIs | Euractiv
Where’s the backup to the backup?
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