Swedish technology company Einride not only offers a European AV solution to global logistics, but also may ease Europe’s severe driver shortage - currently over 500,000 unfilled roles.
This year's State of the Union address by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, focused on three topics related to the digital policy - AI, social media use for minors, and briefly, addictive design and the upcoming Digital Fairness Act.
EU and local policymakers are eager to hear from European founders - and AI makes monitoring policy and engaging with them faster and more affordable.
Startups and more mature companies across the world are leveraging AI to make new solutions for women, spanning from preventative wearables to software making clinical trials easier and cheaper to tools for safer pregnancies.
The US-led Pax Silica and the Chinese-led WAICO are increasingly competing for global attention. While the Global West remains somewhat divided, China's WAICO builds on years of experience in influencing current & future policymakers and locking local infrastructures into Chinese tech.
The French Constitutional Council has blocked the law prohibiting minors under 15 from using social media and digital services; however, the needle may move in Brussels this fall if the EU member states agree on EU-wide rules that may trump the local law.
The German digital rights group filed a criminal complaint against Meta/Ray-Ban smart glasses, raising concerns about proportionality, applicability of the very same idea in other EU Member States, and existing issues with law enforcement.
Poland's feud with SpaceX over Starlink pricing posed reputational risks to SpaceX in Eastern Europe; however, Poland's reinstatement to the European region for Starlink roaming services ended speculation that the previous move was targeted at Ukraine.
We break down the new EU’s 51-page transparency and marking guidelines for AI systems and AI-affected content.
The EU has a difficult task ahead: facilitating the use of AI across the public and private sectors, while ensuring that EU funding does not spark a wave of “AI-washing” projects, similar to the “innovation-washing” projects of the past - where funding fails to yield tangible outcomes.
As the EU speeds up lawmaking, many Member States - especially smaller ones - are struggling to keep pace due to a lack of manpower and outdated practices. To avoid becoming mere observers, countries must urgently rethink how they work in Brussels - and at home.
The EU has ordered Google to share its search data with rivals by January 2027 under the DMA. But as concerns grow over data privacy and loopholes, a new survey reveals that 71% of Europeans have no idea their data will be shared.
Innovation and consumer-centric insights into the EU’s digital policies and initiatives
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