The future may be electric, but that future is being postponed. The European Commission, citing the need for flexibility, has softened its ambitious plan to ban the sale of gas-powered cars by 2035. Instead of requiring 100% of new cars to be zero-emission vehicles by that date, the revised plan would allow 10% of new […]
The European Commission is investigating Google over its AI summaries.
X has seemingly penalized the European Commission’s account after the commission fined the company over blue checkmarks and ad transparency.
The EC is taking issue with the fact that X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, has been allowing anyone to buy a “blue checkmark,” the platform’s long-standing symbol that a user has been verified to be who they are claiming to be.
The European Commission is is launching an antitrust investigation into Meta’s move to ban other AI companies from using WhatsApp’s business tools to offer their own AI chatbots to users.
The Commission said on Thursday that it had identified that Google is using its spam policy to push news media and other publishers’ websites and content lower in search rankings when they include content from third parties.
The EC had in 2020 recommended that member nations stop using tech from “high-risk” vendors like Huawei and ZTE, and now its vice president, Henna Virkkunen, is pushing to turn that recommendation into regulation, Bloomberg reported.
Microsoft will escape largely unscathed from a major antitrust investigation by the European Commission that could have resulted in billion-dollar fines for the tech giant.
This is the EU’s largest antitrust penalty ever — and Trump has already threatened to “nullify” it.
Apple has filed appealed the EU’s decision to fine the company €500 million (about $580 million) for not complying with competition rules.