Luca Bertuzzi
Senior AI Correspondent at MLex Market Insight
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By Luca Bertuzzi ( June 5, 2025, 10:27 GMT | Insight) -- The European Commission’s digital department is to undergo a major restructuring as of July 1, aimed at strengthening its teams working on platform regulation, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. Plans are to expand the platform policy and enforcement directorate, which will be split into two new directorates with societal and economic focuses respectively.
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3 days ago |
mlex.com | Luca Bertuzzi
By Luca Bertuzzi ( June 4, 2025, 15:14 GMT | Insight) -- A short delay might be helpful to “get our act together,” but companies also need legal stability to understand the regulatory requirements they face, Aura Salla, a center-right lawmaker, said today. The European Commission is internally discussing a potential stop-the-clock on the AI law to pass targeted amendments and the topic will land on the table of EU ministers later this week.
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By Matthew Newman and Luca Bertuzzi ( June 4, 2025, 14:12 GMT | Insight) -- EU mobile telecom operators may be obliged by EU governments to restrict “high-risk” suppliers of telecom equipment, such as Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE, from their telecom networks, the EU’s digital chief said today.
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mlex.com | Luca Bertuzzi
By Luca Bertuzzi ( June 3, 2025, 10:40 GMT | Insight) -- Poland has proposed delaying the dates of application of the EU’s AI Act and other digital laws where technical standards are not yet available in a note to be discussed at an EU ministerial meeting on June 6. This “stop-the-clock” approach has already been used in sustainability legislation and is currently under consideration of the European Commission.
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5 days ago |
mlex.com | Luca Bertuzzi
By Luca Bertuzzi ( June 2, 2025, 10:06 GMT | Insight) -- The Netherlands is taking a sector-by-sector, iterative approach to enforcing the EU’s AI Act, according to Sven Stevenson of the Dutch data protection authority. Stevenson emphasized that enforcement will evolve, initially concentrating on prohibited AI practices and gradually addressing high-risk systems. He stressed the need for regulators to engage directly with AI use cases and treat guidance as living documents.
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This is gaining traction. Hungary is now supporting the agenda item as well, and more countries might follow. However, the initiative comes from the Cultural Ministries and was not internally coordinated with the Ministries of Economy, which might have a different view.
Italy, Spain & Portugal are calling for "absolute transparency regarding data used in GPAI models" in an information point scheduled for a ministerial meeting next week, while urging coordinated action to ensure the sustainability of the cultural and creative industries. https://t.co/gC4LrQLHD3
UPDATE: The Commission's feasibility study for a central registry of right holders' TDM opt-outs was assigned to a consortium comprising CapGemini & Visionary Analytics. The estimated length is nine months, meaning it should be finalized by the end of Jan. https://t.co/BuSKeXWyml
Italy, Spain & Portugal are calling for "absolute transparency regarding data used in GPAI models" in an information point scheduled for a ministerial meeting next week, while urging coordinated action to ensure the sustainability of the cultural and creative industries. https://t.co/gC4LrQLHD3