Apple bent to Digital Markets Act pressure from two directions at once, national AI Act rollouts drew their first serious internal criticism, and privacy regulators kept testing where data anonymization actually ends. Underneath it all, investors kept betting on European-owned AI infrastructure as an answer to dependency on foreign platforms.
Niedersachsen's data protection commissioner warns that Germany's AI Act implementation law concentrates market surveillance in a single federal regulator, and points to a possible constitutional review. Meanwhile the day's funding rounds, from eye-cancer diagnostics to grid software, show capital still prefers the application layer to the infrastructure underneath.
MEPs voted against mass surveillance on private messages, reinforcing encryption protections. This crucial vote signals Parliament's opposition to the dangerous CSA Regulation.