Pieter Haeck

4 days ago | politico.eu | Pieter Haeck

Social media platform TikTok has banned worldwide a popular hashtag linked to weight-loss videos following scrutiny from policymakers in Brussels and Paris. The “SkinnyTok” trend saw TikTok in recent months flooded with videos showing emaciated young women promoting extreme diets and posting weight-loss tips. That grabbed the attention of both the European Commission and the French digital regulator Arcom.

1 week ago | wiadomosci.onet.pl | Pieter Haeck

W niedzielę Polacy udadzą się do urn w drugiej turze wyborów prezydenckich. Prezydent Warszawy Rafał Trzaskowski, wspierany przez Platformę Obywatelską i premiera Donalda Tuska, zmierzy się z Karolem Nawrockim wspieranym przez Prawo i Sprawiedliwość. W sondażach obaj kandydaci idą łeb w łeb i walczą o jakąkolwiek przewagę.

1 week ago | politico.eu | Pieter Haeck

BRUSSELS — U.S. Republican lawmakers are reproaching the European Commission for taking a hands-off approach to Poland’s presidential election despite what the Americans say is a bias in favor of establishment centrist candidate Rafał Trzaskowski.

2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Pieter Haeck

The European Commission plans to use EU funds to buy stakes in artificial intelligence and quantum companies seeking to scale as it continues a bid to counter U.S. dominance. According to a draft strategy seen by POLITICO, the EU will create a new Scaleup Europe Fund next year that is privately managed and co-financed by private investors. The plan, set to be published Wednesday, comes amid increasingly vocal concerns about technological dependency on the U.S. and other global powers.

2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Pieter Haeck

ANTWERP, Belgium — The European Commission wants to ensure the microchips needed to train artificial intelligence models are made in Europe, tech chief Henna Virkkunen told POLITICO. It’s the Commission’s “aim” to have an AI chips factory on European soil, the European Commission’s executive vice president said Tuesday in an interview on the sidelines of the industry event ITF World in Antwerp.