Switzerland's FM Reversal Shows the Cost of Mandating a Switchover Ahead of Listener Readiness
BAKOM will hand SRG SSR a new FM licence in August 2026, undoing a 2024 shutdown that cost the broadcaster six points of market share.
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China's New AI Governance Body Signs 29 Countries — and Zero From the G7 or EU
WAICO offers real capacity-building to the Global South, but its government-only structure and Shanghai headquarters war...
Estonia Bets a €21.65 Million, Eight-Year Contract on Making the EU's Digital Wallet Mandate Actually Work
RIA's competitive-dialogue tender for the EUDI Wallet tests whether eIDAS2's 2026 deadline can be met without breaking E...
Switzerland's Platform Bill Ducks Age Verification, and the Australian Evidence Says That Might Be Right
As SVP and Mitte lawmakers demand a binding under-14 social media age limit, Rösti's draft KomPG bets on transparency ov...
Ukraine Trains Civil Servants on Commercial AI Tools Before It Has a Sovereign One
Kyiv's free 10-episode ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude course for bureaucrats is smart workforce policy that outruns its own data-...
London's Robotaxi Debut Splits Licensing in Two, and That's the Right Call
TfL's Aug. 5 licence lets Uber and Wayve run supervised robotaxi rides now; full driverless service still needs a separa...
Argentina's 'Súper RIGI' Bets a $1 Billion Threshold and 30-Year Tax Lock-In Can Win the AI Data Center Race
A Senate bill raising Argentina's investment-incentive floor 5x to attract AI data centers adds an environmental veto cl...
France's Constitutional Council Voids the Under-15 Social Media Ban It Just Passed, Faulting Scope and Age Verification
Paris's top court struck down the world's broadest social-media age ban as disproportionate, leaving age verification's ...
Canada's Sovereign Cloud Push Collides With a CUSMA Clause That Has No Exit
CUSMA's first Joint Review left Article 19.12's absolute ban on data-localization mandates intact, boxing in Canada's $8...
Russia Closes Its 2023 Foreign-Login Loophole, Fining Sites Up to 700,000 Rubles for Letting Users Sign In With Google or Apple ID
Federal Law 199-FZ adds enforcement teeth to a 2023 ban on foreign logins, steering Russian users toward Gosuslugi, VK I...
Twelve Notifications, One Vendor: The CEVA Logistics Breach Tests the Limits of GDPR's Article 33
Twelve Dutch firms reported the CEVA Logistics breach to the AP under GDPR Article 33 — the regulator's silence on names...
San Luis Potosí Repeals Its AI-Deepfake Law After Using It to Prosecute 16 Journalists
Facing a Supreme Court challenge and a wave of journalist arrests, San Luis Potosí scrapped its AI-impersonation statute...
Canada Chooses Narrow AI Transparency Rules Over Reviving AIDA
Ottawa's new consultation on AI labeling and incident tracking signals it won't resurrect the AI and Data Act that died ...