EU AI Act

The full and final text of the EU AI Act, the European Union’s landmark risk-based regulation for applications of artificial intelligence, has been published in the bloc’s Official Journal. In…

EU’s AI Act gets published in bloc’s Official Journal, starting clock on legal deadlines

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.

EU Council gives final nod to risk-based rulebook for AI

Rubrik, the data management company that filed for IPO this week, has an AI governance committee, per its IPO filing. The detail is worth noting because it could soon be…

Rubrik’s IPO filing reveals an AI governance committee. Get used to it.

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AI is keeping GitHub chief legal officer Shelley McKinley busy

GitHub’s chief legal officer, Shelley McKinley, has plenty on her plate, what with legal wrangles around its Copilot pair-progammer, as well as the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, which was voted through the European Parliament this week as “the world’s first comprehensive AI law.” Three years in the making, the EU AI…

AI is keeping GitHub chief legal officer Shelley McKinley busy

The European Parliament voted Wednesday to adopt the AI Act, securing the bloc pole-position in setting rules for a broad sweep of artificial intelligence-powered software — or what regional lawmakers…

Deal on EU AI Act gets thumbs up from European Parliament

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed…

Women in AI: Eva Maydell, member of European Parliament and EU AI Act adviser

The European Parliament’s civil liberties (LIBE) and internal market (IMCO) committees have overwhelmingly endorsed draft legislation setting out a risk-based framework for regulating applications of artificial intelligence. In a vote…

EU AI Act secures committees’ backing ahead of full parliament vote

The European Union’s AI Act, a risk-based plan for regulating applications of artificial intelligence, has passed what looks to be the final big hurdle standing in the way of adoption…

EU’s AI Act passes last big hurdle on the way to adoption

Divisions over how to set rules for applying artificial intelligence are complicating talks between European Union lawmakers trying to secure a political deal on draft legislation in the next few…

France’s Mistral dials up call for EU AI Act to fix rules for apps, not model makers

The European Parliament has voted to confirm its negotiating mandate for the AI Act — hitting a major milestone which unlocks the next stage of negotiations toward a pan-EU rulebook…

Europe takes another big step toward agreeing an AI rulebook

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…

Sam Altman’s big European tour

In a series of votes in the European Parliament this morning MEPs have backed a raft of amendments to the bloc’s draft AI legislation — including agreeing a set of…

EU lawmakers back transparency and safety rules for generative AI

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says that open source developers should be made exempt from the European Union’s (EU) proposed new artificial intelligence (AI) regulations, adding that the opportunity is still…

GitHub CEO on why open source developers should be exempt from the EU’s AI Act

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Regulating the future: A look at the EU’s plan to reboot product liability rules for AI

A recently presented European Union plan to update long-standing product liability rules for the digital age — including addressing rising use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation — took some instant flak from European consumer organization, BEUC, which framed the update as something of a downgrade by arguing EU consumers…

Regulating the future: A look at the EU’s plan to reboot product liability rules for AI

  The European Union is to update product liability laws to tackle the risk of damage caused by artificial intelligence systems and address other liability issues arising from digital devices…

Bad robot: Europe plans product liability changes to make it easier to sue AIs

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 contains powers to order AI models destroyed or retrained, says legal expert