Meta has insufficiently analyzed the health and well-being risks of addictive design on Instagram and Facebook and has not taken effective action against it, according to the Commission.
The planned Cloud and AI Development Act shifts compliance requirements from data residency to demonstrable European control over operations, ownership, and supply chain—yet uncontrolled workarounds dominate in practice.
The EU AI Act extension until December 2027 compresses the available time for fundamental architectural decisions on data governance and logging — a compression, not a reprieve.
The EPP group pushed through a procedural maneuver to enable suspicionless chat monitoring despite a parliamentary majority voting against the measure.
Following the US blockade of Anthropic models, the EU Commission is pursuing a strategy to achieve independence in critical AI systems and aims to prevent lockout mechanisms through its own technology capabilities.
The EU is collecting feedback on data access dependencies, transfer barriers, and risks from third-party access to sensitive data to strengthen its data sovereignty.
The EU AI Act establishes direct liability risk for executives in the handling of AI systems starting in August, fundamentally transforming governance and internal controls.
