EU defends naming Siemens chief Snabe as industrial AI adviser
August 14, 2026
| Masha Borak
The European Commission has said it cannot release documents from its assessment of a potential conflict of interest involving Jim Hagemann Snabe's appointment as the EU's Special Adviser for Industrial AI, ci... (more story)
Shanghai summons six platforms in national online child-protection crackdown
August 14, 2026
| MLex Staff
Six online platforms have been grilled by Shanghai’s internet regulator over failures to protect minors from harmful content, as part of a nationwide crackdown aimed at shielding young people from risks tied t... (more story)
Northern Ireland AI plan targets public sector, sets governance framework
August 14, 2026
| Patricia Figueiredo
AI suppliers in Northern Ireland could face new procurement expectations on oversight, fairness, transparency and accountability under a draft strategy for wider public-sector AI adoption. The plan also calls ... (more story)
China food-delivery giants ease algorithmic strain on riders amid regulatory push
August 13, 2026
| MLex Staff
China’s largest food-delivery platforms are easing some of the algorithmic pressures faced by couriers, as authorities push the sector away from cutthroat competition and toward stronger worker protections. Me... (more story)
South Korea's AI personal-data carve-out faces pushback ahead of expected passage
August 13, 2026
| Jenny Lee
South Korean civic groups making a last-ditch push to stop legislation that would allow companies to use raw, identifiable personal data to train AI systems without consent, as the measure heads toward an expe... (more story)
Reddit, Anthropic clash over whether copyright law bars Calif. scraping suit
August 13, 2026
| Amy Miller
Anthropic told a California judge that Reddit’s data-scraping lawsuit is really a copyright fight in disguise and should be preempted by federal law. Reddit countered that Anthropic did more than scrape users’... (more story)
Manus confirms Meta separation, outlines user-data deletion plan
August 12, 2026
| MLex Staff
Artificial intelligence startup Manus has confirmed it is separating from Meta Platforms and returning to independent operations, nearly four months after Chinese authorities blocked Meta’s acquisition of the ... (more story)
South Korea picks 7 future technologies as growth engines for AI era
August 12, 2026
| Choonsik Yoo
South Korea has identified seven strategic technology fields, including small modular reactors and quantum technology, as future growth engines to be nurtured over the next 10 to 20 years, with most of them di... (more story)