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51 stories · page 4 of 6Meta has removed over 750,000 children's accounts in Australia
The under 16 ban has been running since December 2025. Age is judged by a model that reads photos, comments and descriptions.
Read →Realistic AI renderings of buildings now need a label
Article 50 came into force on August 2 and lawyers say realistic AI visualisations of unbuilt buildings fall under the deepfake definition. Fines reach 15 million euro or 3 per cent of annual turnover.
Read →'Apple is getting this wrong': OpenAI answers the trade-secrets lawsuit by releasing the message logs
Apple is suing OpenAI over trade secrets allegedly carried out by former employees, and is seeking an injunction. OpenAI answered publicly, in a post titled 'Apple is getting this wrong', and attached the actual emails and messages: by their account, Apple's own people reached out to the departed engineer for help, and Apple's lawyers wrote to the wrong person.
Read →The AI Act kicks in: Brussels enforces the rules and is already taking complaints
From 2 August the AI Office and national authorities are enforcing the AI Act, and the transparency obligations apply: the chat says it's a machine, the deepfake carries a label, generated content carries a machine-readable mark. The Commission also published a list of over 180 organizations that have signed the transparency code.
Read →The US regulator sues a telehealth platform over shared health data
According to the complaint, Hims & Hers passed sensitive health condition data to ad platforms while promising its customers privacy. This is a charge, not a verdict. But the mechanism behind it sits in plenty of ordinary sites - maybe yours too.
Read →Anthropic: we never wanted a ban on open-weight models
The company published its position after months of dispute over open models. It admits the higher risk of misuse, but says banning American firms solves nothing. It proposes three measures - and one of them is aimed at itself.
Read →Brussels: children's accounts on TikTok are too exposed and breach the DSA
On 24 July the European Commission sent TikTok preliminary findings: minors' accounts don't meet the safety standard of the Digital Services Act. A public child account is visible to anyone on the internet, even without registering, and content from 16-17-year-olds gets recommended to strangers. If confirmed, the fine could reach 6% of global turnover.
Read →From 2 August, EU rules want AI to admit it's AI
On 20 July the European Commission issued guidelines on how to meet the transparency obligations under Article 50 of the AI Act. From 2 August they take effect: a system that talks to a person must say it's a machine, and generated text, image and video must carry a machine-readable mark that they were made by AI. For anyone putting AI in front of a customer in the EU - so in Bulgaria too - this is now a task with a deadline.
Read →Brussels orders Google to open Android to rival AI assistants and share search data
The European Commission issued two packages of mandatory specification measures under the Digital Markets Act. Google must give rival AI assistants access to the same Android features that only Gemini reaches today, and share part of Google Search's data with other search engines. Not a fine - an order for exactly what to build and by when.
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