Tag: policy

• Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws | The Verge

  November 19, 2025

  The European Commission has proposed changes weakening EU privacy legislation and delaying parts of the AI Act to make the bloc more competitive globally. https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes more ›

• World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds

  November 13, 2025

  Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›

• Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost

  November 10, 2025

  “We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/the-internet-archive-survived-major-copyright-losses-whats-next/ more ›

• Opinion | The West Is Lost

  November 2, 2025

  Loss has become a pervasive condition of life in Europe and America. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/opinion/west-europe-america-lost.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rU8.fmj5.leL4plCy7p0w&smid=url-share more ›

• It’s Not Just Rich Countries. Tech’s Trillion-Dollar Bet on AI Is Everywhere.

  October 28, 2025

  As part of ‘AI decolonization,’ developing nations push Silicon Valley to build locally https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/its-not-just-rich-countries-techs-trillion-dollar-bet-on-ai-is-everywhere-1781a117?st=YZudfN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink more ›

• Don’t be fooled. The US is regulating AI – just not the way you think | Sacha Alanoca and Maroussia Lévesque | The Guardian

  October 27, 2025

  Beneath the free-market rhetoric, Washington actually intervenes to control the building blocks of AI systems https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/23/us-artificial-intelligence-regulations more ›

• China’s innovation fixation

  October 19, 2025

  The coming plenum will reveal Xi’s economic agenda as security project, not growth program. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/china-s-innovation-fixation?utm_source=semafor more ›

• Water: AI mega projects raise alarm in some of Europe’s driest regions

  October 17, 2025

  Europe is planning to at least triple its data center capacity as part of a push to become a world-class AI hub. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/water-ai-mega-projects-raise-alarm-in-some-of-europes-driest-regions.html more ›

• Europe’s cookie law messed up the internet. Brussels wants to fix it.

  September 23, 2025

  The European Commission wants to take a bite out of privacy rules that force websites to run cookie banners. https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-cookie-law-messed-up-the-internet-brussels-sets-out-to-fix-it/ more ›

• Digital euro talks gain speed — but key hurdles remain

  August 28, 2025

  EU finance ministers are racing to agree on the legal framework for a digital euro by the end of 2025, but thorny issues remain, from privacy and data protections to… more ›