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MEPs from Renew Europe want the Commission to curb ‘addictive design’, mandate child-safe defaults and age verification mechanisms as evidence links heavy social media use to poor adolescent mental health.
Faster eating and larger bite sizes are linked to obesity, and AI could help children develop healthier eating habits.
AI simulators enable millions of virtual experiments to predict plasma behaviour and improve tokamak performance.
Embedding consent, transparency, and fair pay into new AI music features takes centre stage among Spotify's new partnerships.
The collaboration between Salesforce and Google advances the concept of the Agentic Enterprise, where AI agents work alongside humans to boost efficiency.
Partners aren’t disclosed; Uber frames the move as added income while robotaxi disruption unfolds.
The latest Dragon Copilot update brings ambient AI to nursing, automating documentation and freeing time for direct patient care.
AI can forecast gene effects and reveal how treatments function inside cells, providing quantitative insights for medical research.
Alongside a crypto reserve proposal, Florida also moves to ease rules for fully collateralised stablecoin issuers with transparent audits.
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Digital Technologies
From internet applications to quantum computing, we focus on advanced and emerging digital technologies which are increasingly reshaping our economies and societies.
Clusters of Policy topics
We unpack digital policy by exploring over 50 topics – from access and sustainable development to network security and the future of work – classified in 7 clusters.
Processes
Follow some of the most important digital policy processes, from the EU's work on the Digital Services Act/Digital Markets Act to the UN Cybercrime Ad Hoc Committee.