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The European Commission has announced E307.3 million ($356 million) in new funding to advance digital technologies across the EU. The initiative aims to strengthen Europe's innovation, competitiveness, and strategic digital autono...

Ofcom has opened an investigation into Novi Ltd over age checks on its AI companion chatbot. The probe focuses on duties under the Online Safety Act. Regulators will assess whether children can access pornographic content without ...

Britain and Canada are continuing regulatory probes into xAI's Grok chatbot, signalling that official scrutiny will persist despite the company's announcement of new safeguards. Authorities say concerns remain over the system's ab...

Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed to collaborate on developing new AI models and preparing related legislation. The cooperation was formalised in a joint statement at a digital ministers' mee...

The Council of Europe recently hosted an online event to examine the challenges posed by algorithmic discrimination and explore ways to strengthen governance frameworks for AI and automated decision-making (ADM) systems. Two new p...

WhatsApp has excluded Brazil from its new restriction on third-party general-purpose chatbots, allowing AI providers to continue operating on the platform despite a broader policy shift affecting other markets. The decision follow...

Switzerland is heading into 2026 facing an AI transition marked by uncertainty, and it may not win a raw 'compute race' dominated by the biggest hardware buyers. In his blog '10 Swiss values and practices for AI & digitalisati...

Canada's Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) department saw an overwhelming volume of comments on its national AI strategy consultation, prompting officials to use AI tools to analyse and organise responses from ci...

A high-profile EU court case on pseudonymised data has ended without a final ruling. The dispute involved the Single Resolution Board and the European Data Protection Supervisor. The case focused on whether pseudonymised opinions ...

A group of international cybersecurity agencies has released new technical guidance addressing the security of operational technology (OT) used in industrial and critical infrastructure environments. The guidance, led by the UK's ...

More than 50 EU lawmakers have called on the European Commission to clarify whether AI-powered applications for nudity are prohibited under existing EU legislation, citing concerns about online harm and legal uncertainty. The requ...