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President of the European Commission, the EU's executive body, overseeing policy proposals including digital regulation, tech funding, and online safety rules.
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Europe's €500 million Choose Europe for Science package is about 0.3% of the up to $177 billion in US federal grants cut. US researchers' applications to European programmes number in the hundreds, so the talent employers can count today is a small academic intake.
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The EU Kids Act would bar under-15s from social media and AI chat services, while the age-verification wallet the Commission finished in April certifies 18 and can be adapted to 13. Member states are meant to be tooled by the end of 2026.
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A draft seen by WIRED would bar chatbots from simulating emotions with anyone under 18 and stop them carrying memory between conversations. Fines reach 6% of worldwide turnover. The scoping work lands on product teams.
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Von der Leyen announced a ban on social media for under-13s and one-hour parent-run accounts for 13- to 15-year-olds. WIRED and a draft seen by the Financial Times describe the youngest tier differently, and the text is years from force.
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OECD counts seven EU members among the 10 countries working most actively to contain the energy shock. Each capital is writing its own mix of subsidies and levies, so investors in European fuel and industry face a different policy cost in each country.
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The Commission president's September 16 speech named model-enabled intrusion as a sharpening risk and pointed to the AI Act as the guardrail, while the new bills she promised cover children's feeds and jobs.
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ASML says its revenue share from Europe has fallen to zero this year from 5 percent in 2024, as the region's new fabs skip leading-edge chips. Hardware buyers can source mature-node parts locally, but 3nm and 5nm supply depends on EUV capacity ASML says is nearly booked for 2027.
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Europe accounted for 0% of ASML's revenue in the first half of 2026, and the company's public affairs chief blames missing demand for European-made chips. Four European fab projects ran through the same period.
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The Commission adopted the proposal on September 18. Under-13s would be kept off social media, and 13- to 15-year-olds would only get parent-linked accounts carrying a 60-minute daily cap that platforms have to enforce.
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Support for pausing AI development leads in all six countries Public First surveyed, and it tops out at 51%, while the path from that sentiment to a binding rule runs through a US president who calls the warnings a hoax.
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Max Junestrand told Politico that Europe's opportunity is in applications, and in the same conversation he agreed that European customers waiting longer for new American models is a competitive disadvantage.
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The Special Panel on Child Safety Online filed its final report in July and no requirement is adopted yet. The work that transfers today is checking whether the account record can hold an age band at all.
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Anthropic pledged employee-level access for outside evaluators and OpenAI matched within hours. The two steps that ask labs to build less depend on rivals and governments agreeing a pace, and on taking each other's word for it.
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An OECD survey of 6,047 employers found this software in most workplaces on both continents. The countries split over what firms are allowed to do with it, and most of these tools are not AI at all.
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CVE-2026-76461 is one of three flaws confirmed under active attack in a single week. Revolut's customer records left by a different route, a request sent from an email address on a government agency's own domain.
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Poland's prime minister says Moscow is planning hybrid strikes with drones or rockets on Ukraine's European backers. A day later he sat down with seven neighbours in a new bloc whose agenda is energy, logistics and border trade.
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EU and French leaders used a Paris summit on 10 September to call for sovereign launch and crew capability. The parts actually under construction are a 348-satellite constellation, German defence budgets and a first orbital launch from Norwegian soil.
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The Commission's proposal bars under-13s, holds 13-to-15-year-olds to an hour a day through accounts created from a parent's, and threatens fines of up to 6% of global sales. Council and Parliament have not voted.
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Christine Lagarde says Europeans can shun AI and lose growth or adopt it and depend on American and Chinese tools, while the safety debate that would set the technology's pace is run by two governments that have dismissed slowing down.
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A year after promoting the under-16 social media ban at the UN, Anthony Albanese is legislating a digital duty of care and an algorithm opt-out. The enforcement that has changed Meta's products so far came from Europe and the US.
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