European Union
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- Germany's transport ministry calls the name FSD “misleading”: it is a driver-assistance system; Tesla has offered to rename it “Tesla Assisted Driving”Transport & logistics · Laws & regulation · Self-driving cars · bmv.de ↗
- Mistral unveils Mistral Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model with 52 billion active parameters; weights promised by the end of the monthSoftware development · Open weights · mistral.ai ↗
- Under EU rules, OpenAI will add an invisible textGrain watermark to eligible ChatGPT and Codex text in the European Union over the coming weeks; the detector goes first to approved researchersLaws & regulation · Media & information · AI regulation · openai.com ↗
- The Leiden Declaration on AI and Mathematics is published and endorsed by the International Mathematical Union: credit and responsibility for results stay with humansScience · Values & religion · AI in mathematics · leidendeclaration.ai ↗
- Codeberg reports that AI crawlers have learned to get past Anubis's computational checkCybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · Moving target defense · theregister.com ↗
- In the European Union, the AI Act obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models take effectLaws & regulation · AI regulation · digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu ↗
- European Commission: recognising emotions from typing style at work is banned, but for advertising it is notPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Work & jobs · Behavioral biometrics · ec.europa.eu ↗
- The EU AI Act's ban on recognising emotions at work and in education takes effect; the act treats any behavioural traits as biometrics, including the way a person presses keysPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Work & jobs · Behavioral biometrics · publications.europa.eu ↗
- Bavaria's regulator BayLDA, the lead EU supervisory authority in the Worldcoin case, orders it to ensure data deletion under GDPR; the company appealsPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Proof of personhood · lda.bayern.de ↗
- The Federal Administrative Court of Austria rules that reCAPTCHA is not technically necessary for a website to work and may be enabled only with the visitor's consentPrivacy & surveillance · Justice & courts · Death of CAPTCHA · ris.bka.gv.at ↗
- The AI Act comes into forceLaws & regulation · AI regulation · commission.europa.eu ↗
- A study of 45+ generative AI systems: the term open source is widely used, but many models are “open weight” at best and training data is withheld — “open-washing”Software development · Laws & regulation · Science · Open weights · facctconference.org ↗
- cURL author Daniel Stenberg describes the first vulnerability reports that “reek of typical AI style hallucinations”; of 415 reports, 64 were confirmed and 66% were neither a security issue nor a bugSoftware development · Cybersecurity · Maintainer crisis · daniel.haxx.se ↗
- Europol reissues its deepfakes report and removes the estimate of the future share of synthetic content (up to 90% by 2026 in the 2022 version) as coming from an inaccurate sourceMedia & information · Elections & politics · Dead internet theory · europol.europa.eu ↗
- The EU agrees on the AI ActLaws & regulation · AI regulation · lewissilkin.com ↗
- Bletchley Park summit: 28 countries and the EU, including the US and China, adopt a declaration on the risks of frontier AI; on 2 November the UK launches the first government AI safety instituteGeopolitics & defense · Laws & regulation · AI regulation · gov.uk ↗
- GDPR comes into forceLaws & regulation · Privacy & surveillance · Data protection · eur-lex.europa.eu ↗
- GDPR classes behavioural traits as biometrics only if they allow a person to be uniquely identified; fraud prevention is recognised as a company's legitimate interestPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Behavioral biometrics · publications.europa.eu ↗