<p>With both Vice President J.D. Vance and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth making loud noises Friday about Europe stepping up to the plate in spending more on its own defense, it might come as a surprise that Europe is already on the path toward far greater investment in defense, especially in tech. Not only has [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The European Union has denied that recent moves to row back on some planned tech regulation &#8212; principally by ditching the AI Liability Directive, a 2022 draft law which had been aimed at making it easier for consumers to sue over harms caused by AI-enabled products and services &#8212; were made in response to pressure [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple and Google on Thursday evening restored TikTok to their respective app stores in the U.S., nearly a month after they removed the short video app following a national security law that banned it in the country. The apps were restored after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sent Apple a letter saying that the ban [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI says it has removed the &#8220;warning&#8221; messages in its AI-powered chatbot platform, ChatGPT, that indicated when content might violate its terms of service. Laurentia Romaniuk, a member of OpenAI&#8217;s AI model behavior team, said in a post on X that the change was intended to cut down on &#8220;gratuitous/unexplainable denials.&#8221; Nick Turley, head of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI has eliminated a page on its website that used to express its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The URL “https://openai.com/commitment-to-dei/” now redirects to “https://openai.com/building-dynamic-teams/,” a page that talks about people with “different backgrounds” with no use of the word &#8220;diversity.&#8221; The previous page stated that the company’s “investment in diversity, equity and inclusion” [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Staying on the right side of the European Union&#8217;s online rulebook when it comes to the slippery topic of disinformation is set to get easier for platforms that commit to the bloc&#8217;s long-standing Code of Practice on Disinformation. You know, the voluntary Code that Elon Musk pulled X (formerly Twitter) out of back in 2023. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Germany&#8217;s antitrust watchdog has been investigating Apple&#8217;s app privacy framework since 2022. On Thursday, releasing preliminary findings from this probe, the Bundeskartellamt (FCO) said it suspects the iPhone maker may not be treating third-party app developers as equally as the law requires. The antitrust watchdog said it believes Apple&#8217;s behavior could amount to self-preferencing. Apple [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s X has agreed to pay President Donald Trump $10 million to settle a lawsuit from the days when the company was still called Twitter and owned by Jack Dorsey, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources. The lawsuit took issue with Twitter&#8217;s decision to ban Trump after January 6, when Trump&#8217;s supporters [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Brian Quintenz, who leads policy for Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto team, announced on Wednesday that he’s being tapped to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), according to his X post. And many in the VC industry appear to be thrilled about it. The CFTC regulates the trading of commodity futures, options, and swaps, otherwise known [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI is&nbsp;making clear&nbsp;that its AI models won’t shy away from sensitive topics, and will refrain from making assertions that might &#8220;shut out some viewpoints.&#8221; In an updated version of its Model Spec, a collection of high-level rules that indirectly govern OpenAI&#8217;s models, OpenAI says that its models &#8220;must never attempt to steer the user in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>President Donald Trump has chosen Jonathan Morrison, an Apple executive, to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, per a Senate filing. The nomination will be reviewed and voted on by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation before being sent for a full Senate vote.  If he&#8217;s sworn in, Morrison will oversee an [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A long-stalled bid to beef up European Union rules around online tracking technologies and put penalties on a similar footing to the bloc&#8217;s data protection framework, GDPR, has been withdrawn by the Commission after co-legislators failed to reach agreement over the plan. The original proposal to update the ePrivacy Directive and turn it into a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Federal workers are suing DOGE and its creator, Elon Musk to cut off the new agency&#8217;s access to their personal data.</p>

<p>Apple Maps will soon rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, following similar changes made by Google this week, in order to comply with U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order that officially changed the name. U.S.-based Apple users may see the &#8220;Gulf of America&#8221; as soon as Tuesday, according to Bloomberg, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Army plans to grant upstart weapons maker Anduril control of one of its highest-profile and long-troubled projects known as the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) pending final Department of Defense (DoD) approval, founder Palmer Luckey announced in a blog post Tuesday. IVAS was initially awarded to Microsoft in 2018 to develop augmented reality headsets [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A senior DHS official confirmed CISA employees involved in election security were put on leave.</p>

<p>In a statement on Tuesday, Dario Amodei, the CEO of AI startup Anthropic, called the AI Action Summit in Paris this week a &#8220;missed opportunity,&#8221; and urged the AI industry — and government — to &#8220;move faster and with greater clarity.&#8221; &#8220;We were pleased to attend the AI Action Summit in Paris, and we appreciate [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris was supposed to culminate with a joint declaration on artificial intelligence signed by dozens of world leaders. While the statement isn’t as ambitious as the Bletchley and Seoul declarations, both the U.S. and the U.K. have refused to sign it. It proves once again that it is difficult [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At the AI Action Summit in Paris this week, the U.S. declined to sign the statement summarizing the resolutions. But it did make an appearance: Vice President JD Vance gave a speech to the audience of dignitaries, tech leaders, and regulators. Amid a conference heavy on equitable AI development — specifically, beyond the outsized influence [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The European Union is courting the private sector as it looks to step up compute capacity for training large AI models. Giving a speech at the AI Action Summit in Paris on Monday, the EU&#8217;s president, Ursula von der Leyen, talked up the potential of homegrown AI startups but said the region&#8217;s developers must have [&hellip;]</p>