IT総合 EU’s AI Act passes last big hurdle on the way to adoption
The European Union’s AI Act, a risk-based plan for regulating applications of artificial intelligence, has passed ...
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IT総合 IT総合 Apple says it’ll show its GenAI efforts ‘later this year’
Apple has tossed another crumb to investors wondering when the world will get to see some ‘Made in Cupertino’...
IT総合 Antitrust enforcers admit they’re in a race to understand how to tackle AI
Antitrust enforcers on both sides of the Atlantic are grappling to get a handle on AI, a conference in Brussels heard ye...
IT総合 Heart failure monitoring startup, Acorai, turns heads with oversubscribed seed
Swedish medical device startup Acorai is pairing proprietary sensing hardware and machine learning software with the goa...
IT総合 ChatGPT is violating Europe’s privacy laws, Italian DPA tells OpenAI
OpenAI has been told it’s suspected of violating European Union privacy, following a multi-month investigation of ...
IT総合 A closer look at Apple’s browser-related changes to iOS in EU
The raft of iOS changes Apple dropped in the European Union yesterday, as it prepares for enforcement of the bloc’...
IT総合 Apple reveals big App Store and iOS changes incoming in EU on DMA day
Apple has announced a raft of changes incoming to iOS in the European Union as the iPhone maker prepares to roll out its...
IT総合 EU wants to upgrade its supercomputers to support generative AI startups
European Union lawmakers scrambling for the bloc to be a contender in the generative AI race are presenting a package of...
IT総合 Google’s search tweaks draw fire as EU self-preferencing ban looms
Changes to how Google displays search results in the European Union, which the tech giant is testing ahead of a ban on s...
IT総合 Meta to let EU users deny cross-site tracking as Digital Markets Act bites
Meta has provided new details of how it plans to respond to incoming competition rules in the European Union that aim to...
IT総合 Meta’s content moderator subcontractor model faces legal squeeze in Spain
A Barcelona-based company that works as a subcontractor for Meta, providing content moderation services for Facebook and...
IT総合 Apple offers EU set of pledges aimed at settling Apple Pay antitrust probe
Apple has offered a set of commitments to competition regulators in the European Union aimed at resolving concerns focus...
IT総合 Six rules to get the most out of fitness & wellness tracking
Self quantification is the trend that just keeps on going. There’s an ever-expanding world of wellness wearables a...
IT総合 EU dials up attention on larger platforms over data access for risk research
The European Commission has sent requests for information (RFI) to a full 17 platforms subject to algorithmic transparen...
IT総合 Microsoft expands EU data localization efforts to cover system logs
Microsoft has ticked off the second phase of its rollout of a data localization offering in the European Union. The late...
IT総合 Meta faces another EU privacy challenge over ‘pay for privacy’ consent choice
Adtech giant Meta’s bid to keep tracking and profiling users of Facebook and Instagram in Europe in spite of the b...
IT総合 EU lawmakers under pressure to fully disclose dealings with child safety tech maker, Thorn
More trouble for European Union lawmakers in a controversial area of tech policymaking — namely the bloc’s propose...
IT総合 Smart ring maker Ultrahuman announces tracker for home ‘health’
Indian wearable startup Ultrahuman is getting into the smart home game. It has announced the upcoming launch of connecte...
IT総合 OpenAI moves to shrink regulatory risk in EU around data privacy
While most of Europe was still knuckle deep in the holiday chocolate selection box late last month, ChatGPT maker OpenAI...
IT総合 EU’s provisional deal on gig worker rights fails to get enough backing from Member States
Not so fast on that Christmas present for precarious gig workers in the EU: A political deal announced mid month, which ...
IT総合 Google makes bid to resolve competition concerns in Germany over its automotive services bundling
Following competition objections raised on Google in Germany this summer over bundling of services including Google Maps...
IT総合 Big tech’s divisive ‘personalization’ attracts fresh call for profiling-based content feeds to be off by default in EU
Another policy tug-of-war could be emerging around Big Tech’s content recommender systems in the European Union wh...
IT総合 EU names three porn sites subject to its strictest online content rules
Age verification tech could be headed to adult content sites Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos after the three were added t...
IT総合 EU to expand support for AI startups to tap its supercomputers for model training
A European Union plan to support homegrown AI startups by providing them with access to processing power for model train...
IT総合 Elon Musk’s X faces first DSA probe in EU over illegal content risks, moderation, transparency and deceptive UX design
It’s official! Elon Musk’s X marks the spot of the first confirmed investigation opened by the European Unio...
IT総合 Privacy complaint takes aim at Musk’s X over EU ads targeted on sensitive data
Elon Musk’s X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, is facing a new privacy complaint in Europe re...
IT総合 Berlin climate startup ecoworks is using a high tech blend to decarbonize buildings
Berlin-based climate startup ecoworks is using digital technologies, AI and industrial robots to tackle a huge and criti...
IT総合 European Union lawmakers agree deal to bolster gig worker rights
Some two years of talking about gig worker rights later and European Union lawmakers have finally reached a deal on the ...
IT総合 EU says incoming rules for general purpose AIs can evolve over time
The political deal clinched by European Union lawmakers late Friday over what the bloc is billing as world’s first...
IT総合 EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
After marathon ‘final’ talks which stretched to almost three days European Union lawmakers have tonight clin...