Colorado governor vetoes surveillance pricing bills as other states enact bans
June 03, 2026
| Amy Miller
Colorado Governor Jared Polis has vetoed what would have been the strongest surveillance pricing legislation in the country banning the use of AI-powered algorithms to set prices or wages based a person’s indi... (more story)
AI Act alignment will require lessons learned from GDPR, Irish regulator says
June 03, 2026
| Patricia Figueiredo
Regulators and companies should draw on lessons learned during eight years of GDPR enforcement as new digital regulation frameworks such as the EU AI Act are implemented on the continent, a senior Irish privac... (more story)
AI is 'natural experiment' for EU gatekeepers' rules, EU official says
June 03, 2026
| Anna Ferrari
Artificial intelligence offers a chance to test whether the EU’s rulebook for Big Tech can prevent the sector from becoming dominated by a handful of companies, an EU regulator's official said. Lucia Bonova de... (more story)
More financial services firms to get access to Anthropic's Mythos AI model
June 03, 2026
| Patricia Figueiredo and Sofia Gerace
More financial services firms are set to be granted access to Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos Preview AI model, MLex understands. The move comes amid growing concerns among financial authorities in the UK... (more story)
Google, Amazon, Microsoft could face hurdles from EU cloud, AI development bill (update*)
June 03, 2026
| Matthew Newman
US cloud service companies such as Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft could see new hurdles in winning European public procurement contracts under the EU "technological sovereignty" package published by... (more story)
EU data-center efficiency package delayed amid dispute over nuclear power
June 03, 2026
| Louis de Briant
An expected EU data-center energy-efficiency package has been postponed by the European Commission as EU member states challenge a proposed sustainability rating program that they say discriminates against nuc... (more story)
China tightens exit controls on top AI talent amid US tech rivalry
June 03, 2026
| MLex Staff
China is tightening exit controls on artificial intelligence professionals, extending travel restrictions to top talent at private-sector companies as competition with the US for leadership in the technology i... (more story)
Hong Kong won't rush embodied AI laws, cites existing rules
June 03, 2026
| Yonnex Li
Hong Kong has no plans to immediately enact laws regulating embodied artificial intelligence, instead relying on existing regulations while monitoring the technology's evolution, the city's tech chief told law... (more story)