VivaTech 2026: What Europe’s Biggest Tech Show Means for EU AI
VivaTech’s 10th edition opens in Paris tomorrow with 180,000 visitors, €18B in EU AI momentum, and the AI Act deadline looming.
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EU AI Act High-Risk Deadline: 47 Days and Counting
August 2, 2026 enforcement of the EU AI Act’s high-risk provisions is 47 days away. Compliance is no longer optional.
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EU Innovation Platform launches as Business Wallets enter talks
The European Commission unveils a central hub for startups and funding on 9 June 2026. Business Wallets regulation enters trilogue as telecoms ministers approve Council position.
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EU ministers back digital business wallets as talks with MEPs loom
Council adopts position on European Business Wallets enabling cross-border digital identity for firms. Trialogue negotiations to begin with year-end deal targeted.
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Europe’s Digital Rulebook at a Crossroads: AI Act Enforcement Ramps Up as GDPR Turns Ten
As the EU marks ten years since the General Data Protection Regulation, the rollout of the AI Act – the world’s first comprehensive law for artificial intelligence – is accelerating toward key obligations, even as Brussels promises to simplify a rulebook that critics call a ‘regulatory maze’ for European firms.
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Meta Faces Up to 6% Global Turnover Fine as European Commission Confirms Instagram and Facebook Breach Digital Services Act on Minors
On 29 April 2026, the European Commission preliminarily found Meta’s Instagram and Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act for failing to prevent minors under 13 from accessing the platforms, with potential fines reaching 6% of Meta’s global annual turnover. The case marks one of the most significant DSA enforcement actions to date.
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Single European train ticket: Brussels proposal could simplify cross-border rail travel from 2028
Brussels – The European Commission has put forward, on 13 May 2026, a major proposal to simplify rail travel across the EU: one journey, one ticket, full rights. The new rules would enable single-ticket bookings across multiple rail operators and grant full passenger rights protection to travellers who miss their connection — a long-standing demand…
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AI Omnibus Deal: EU Pushes High-Risk AI Rules to December 2027
In short: On 7 May 2026, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached a provisional political agreement on the AI Act Omnibus. The deal postpones the application of high-risk AI obligations to 2 December 2027 for standalone systems, delays watermarking obligations to 2 December 2026, and prohibits AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery and…
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EU Strikes AI Omnibus Deal: High-Risk Rules Delayed to December 2027
At 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday 7 May 2026, after negotiations that ran deep into the small hours, the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament reached a provisional political agreement on the AI Omnibus — the most consequential rewrite of EU artificial-intelligence rules since the original AI Act of 2024. Although the final…
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EU AI Omnibus Deal Delays High-Risk Rules to December 2027
EU co-legislators struck a provisional political agreement in the early hours of Thursday 7 May 2026 on the so-called Digital Omnibus on AI — a regulation amending the AI Act that postpones key compliance deadlines and adds a new prohibition on AI “nudification” apps. As the formal adoption process accelerates, the deal will reshape the…
