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European Union – Digital Omnibus proposal: Data Act revisions explained

On 19 November 2025, the European Commission presented a new set of measures (Digital Omnibus Package) that should enable Europe's businesses to spend less time on administrative work and compliance and more on innovating and scaling up. One of the legislative proposals is a reform of the current Data Act.

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Omnibus II Proposal: The Adoption of Common Specifications for All Regulated Products, including Software

This post provides explains the Omnibus II Proposal’s horizontal introduction of common specifications by the European Commission into EU product legislation in the context of the Digital Omnibus proposals.

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Digital Omnibus on AI: a simplification that isn't?

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(NL) DigComp 3.0 beschrijft digitale competenties in tijden van AI

Welke digitale vaardigheden heb je nodig om effectief, kritisch en veilig digitale technologie te gebruiken? Op die vraag geeft DigComp 3.0 een antwoord. Lees er hier meer over.

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Digital Omnibus & GDPR - Moving towards simplification: an overview of the Commission’s Proposal

On 19 November 2025, the European Commission has unveiled its first proposal of the Digital Omnibus as part of the broader Digital Package. This policy monitor outlines the main changes in relation to the GDPR.

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(NL) AI-geletterdheid in de werkcontext: bouwstenen, definities en meetkaders

Dit rapport focust op AI-geletterdheid, de kennis, vaardigheden en attitudes die individuen nodig hebben om AI op een effectieve, kritische en verantwoorde manier te begrijpen en te gebruiken.

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The AI Act’s AI literacy obligation in 4 steps

How can you promote AI literacy in your organisation? With this practical tool, we explain Article 4 of the EU AI Act step by step. Use this tool to discover what AI literacy entails, what requirements apply and what the best practices are.

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United States – California’s Transparancy in Frontier AI Act is signed into law

On 29 September 2025 the California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Senate Bill No. 53, also known as the Transparancy in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act. By signing this law, the state California follows jurisdictions like the European Union who opted for a risk-based regulatory framework.

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General Court (of the CJEU) – Case concerning the independency of the DPRC and collection of data in bulk without ex-ante authorisation (Latombe T-553/23)

The General Court dismissed Philippe Latombe's action for annulment of the Data Privacy Framework. Latombe argued that the US Data Protection Review Court is dependent on the executive branch and that US intelligence services collect personal data from the EU on a large scale without prior judicial authorization.

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brAInfood: What is Agentic AI?

Agentic AI is the next step in the evolution of AI systems, making them increasingly capable of acting on their own. But what exactly is Agentic AI, and what ethical and social challenges does it create?

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European Commission – Apply AI Strategy

The Apply AI strategy is the EU's overarching sectoral strategy that complements the AI Continent Action Plan with concrete actions.

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United States - Richard Kadrey et al. v. Meta Platforms Inc. - (Artificial) market harm as a decisive factor

On 25 June 2025, the US District Court, Northern District of California issued a summary judgment in the case Richard Kadrey et al. v. Meta Platforms Inc., ruling that Meta Platforms Inc. (Meta) did not infringe upon the plaintiffs' copyrights by using their books to train its large language models (LLMs).

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European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking – AI Factories & AI Factory Antennas

Belgium will establish an AI Factory Antenna which will provide Belgian companies, researchers and public institutions with services, access to supercomputing infrastructure and datasets and training.

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United States - Copyrights and AI: the case of Andrea Bartz, et al. versus Anthropic PBC

In June, the Northern District of California issued a summary judgment in the case Andrea Bartz, et al. v. Anthropic PBC in favor of Anthropic PBC (Anthropic), ruling that using (pirated) copies of books to train artificial intelligence software (specifically large language models) is not a violation of US copyright law.

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Is compliance enough? Rethinking ethics in the age of the AI Act

With the arrival of the AI Act, the discussion about responsible AI seems to have shifted from ethics to compliance. What does this mean for the impact of AI, and how can ethics and law strengthen and support each other? On 23 September the ‘AI and ethics in practice’ learning community came together to reflect on these questions.

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Italy - Provisions and delegations to the Government on artificial intelligence

Italy is the first EU country that approved a national AI law that complements the EU AI Act

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brAInfood: How to use GenAI critically and responsibly?

A new LinkedIn profile photo, a to-do list for the coming week, a social media post. You can use generative AI (GenAI) for all these tasks. But how do you, as a user, use GenAI in a considered way? In this brAInfood, you will discover several user tips.

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UK - Memorandum of Understanding between the UK and OpenAI on AI opportunities

The UK has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore deploying OpenAI’s models across public services, co-develop UK AI infrastructure and expand technical information-sharing with the UK AI Security Institute

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Flanders – Report Quickscan AI in the Flemish government

With the report Quickscan AI in the Flemish government, the AI Expertise Center aims to investigate how often, for what purposes, and by whom artificial intelligence (AI) is currently being used within the Flemish government.

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United States - America’s AI Action Plan

American President Donald Trump has unveiled the US vision for AI policy in the AI Action Plan

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European Commission – AI Literacy Questions and Answers

Article 4 of the AI Act requires providers and deployers of AI systems to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy of their staff and other persons dealing with AI systems on their behalf. The European Commission clarified this obligation through a Q&A.

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(NL) Schrijf een scenario voor de toekomst van jouw organisatie

Hoe ziet jouw organisatie er in de toekomst uit? Welke rol wil je dat technologie daarin speelt? Door toekomstscenario's uit te werken, krijg je hier een beter beeld van.

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European Commission - The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice

This document outlines key considerations for providers of general-purpose AI models (GPAI)

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brAInfood: What should you be mindful of when using GenAI?

Generative AI (GenAI) is a technology capable of creating things like text, images or music on its own. It offers great potential. At the same time, GenAI raises critical questions: What does it mean for our jobs? What about privacy? And what is its environmental impact?

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Find the blind spots in your GenAI use

Are you planning to use generative AI (GenAI) in your organisation or for your work? In this article, we take a closer look at the ethical blind spots of GenAI and how the GenAI Blind Spots card set can help you identify and deal with them.

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brAInfood: The EU AI Act in six steps

Navigating the complexities of the EU AI Act can be challenging. To help you, the Knowledge Centre Data & Society has created a tool that enables organisations to assess key points in the regulation.

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United Kingdom – AI Security Institute

The UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology announced that the AI Safety Institute would renamed into the AI Security Institute.

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How to develop a strategy for Responsible AI?

You want to use AI responsibly, but how do you approach this in a thoughtful and structured way? That was the central question during the ‘AI and ethics in practice’ learning community session on Tuesday, 20 May 2025.

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European Commission - Digital Europe Programme - Work programme 2025 - 2027

The European Commission is allocating €1.3 billion through the DIGITAL work programme for 2025–2027 for the deployment of strategically critical technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud and data infrastructure, cyber resilience, and digital skills — all aimed at strengthening Europe’s technological sovereignty.

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European Commission – Invest AI initiative

InvestAI channels €200 billion (incl. a €20 billion fund for four AI gigafactories) to make Europe a global AI leader and secure open, trustworthy compute capacity

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