I've been giving up some sleep to pursue a passion project tracking social media age restrictions around the world. Here's what I found and what it means. 🌐 😴

I’m at the Govt’s AI Summit, reminiscing about when tech conferences had people with purple hair & big ideas Overheard conversations between grey suited people this morning are how backs are holding up after multi-hop trips from Bxl, & the €900 someone paid Ryanair to get here

The invitation-only gathering comes as Ireland leads negotiations over the Digital Omnibus, raising questions about whose interests are represented as the EU rewrites its digital rulebook, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Liz Carolan.

Excellent if depressing piece from Tech Policy Press showing our new(ish) AI minister (a) doesn’t know how much compute capacity we have (b) doesn’t understand UK copyright law(c)has totally swallowed the industryKoolAid re existential risk (like, duh). If you want sense, try the House of Lords.

The Commission’s Democracy Shield initiative includes measures aimed at strengthening democratic resilience, supporting civil society and independent fact-checking, and countering foreign manipulation. Many orgs (including the EU Disinfo Lab) have contributed knowledge to this effort.

Three government sponsors pulled their logos from Europe's premier disinformation conference in Vilnius this week. Ramsha Jahangir and Giovana Fleck report on what drove the withdrawals and the transatlantic politics behind them.

The winner and up to three runners-up will be edited and published by Tech Policy Press, where they'll be read by policymakers, regulators, journalists and the public.

Write 800–1500 words on either: a) a case where an opportunity for a structural remedy was missed, or b) how real-world abusive conduct affected consumers, suppliers, or rivals trying to compete fairly

The European Union says its AI rules already give regulators the tools to deal with the risks posed by increasingly capable AI models. Legal experts are questioning how far those powers actually extend, Joana Soares reports.

The word “Cambridge" appears 45 times in the $17 billion Meta child-harms settlement, notes Jason Kint. Buried inside: a $459,293,017.80 payment resolving Cambridge Analytica claims across at least 46 states and two territories.