AI regulation
EU Council gives final nod to risk-based rulebook for AI
It’s a wrap: European Union lawmakers have given the final approval to set up the bloc’s flagship, risk-based regulations for artificial intelligence.
TikTok loves e-commerce and VCs think Mistral AI will be fine (potential EU regulatory overhang or not)
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After marathon ‘final’ talks which stretched to almost three days European Union lawmakers have tonight clinched a political deal on a risk-based framework for regulating artificial intelligence. The file was…
We’re looking at a massive earnings week, the Biden administration’s order regarding AI, Web Summit’s new CEO, and more.
Alibaba shakes up its leadership, OpenAI lobbies EU regulators, and the late-stage market is a mess
Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. All the cool…
OpenAI’s Altman and other AI giants back warning of advanced AI as ‘extinction’ risk
Make way for yet another headline-grabbing AI policy intervention: Hundreds of AI scientists, academics, tech CEOs and public figures — from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis…
Fresh from telling U.S. lawmakers he’s a fan of regulation and laws are needed to mitigate the risks around artificial intelligence — and, indeed, calling for an international regulatory body…
Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition firm that scrapes selfies and other personal data off the Internet without consent to feed an AI-powered identity-matching service it sells to law enforcement…
Europe’s AI Act contains powers to order AI models destroyed or retrained, says legal expert
The European Union’s planned risk-based framework for regulating artificial intelligence includes powers for oversight bodies to order the withdrawal of a commercial AI system or require that an AI model…
Europe’s AI Act falls far short on protecting fundamental rights, civil society groups warn
Civil society has been poring over the detail of the European Commission’s proposal for a risk-based framework for regulating applications of artificial intelligence which was proposed by the EU’s executive…
EU’s top data protection supervisor urges ban on facial recognition in public
The European Union’s lead data protection supervisor has called for remote biometric surveillance in public places to be banned outright under incoming AI legislation. The European Data Protection Supervisor’s (EDPS)…
MEPs call for European AI rules to ban biometric surveillance in public
A cross-party group of 40 MEPs in the European parliament has called on the Commission to strengthen an incoming legislative proposal on artificial intelligence to include an outright ban on…
AI chatbot maker Babylon Health attacks clinician in PR stunt after he goes public with safety concerns
U.K. startup Babylon Health pulled app data on a critical user in order to create a press release in which it publicly attacks the UK doctor who has spent years…
