Artificial Intelligence and AI Act
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Cookie banners and the right to complain: the EDPB sends the VRT case back to the merits
In a binding decision of 28 May 2026, made public on 14 July, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has ruled that a supervisory authority cannot dispose of a cookie banner complaint by branding it an abuse of the right to complain. The Belgian authority, acting as lead on a complaint brought by the Austrian…
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Marking AI-generated content: a European duty resting on a standard Europe does not control
From 2 August 2026 the transparency obligations in Article 50 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the Artificial Intelligence Act, begin to apply: whoever makes available a system that generates synthetic content must ensure that its outputs are marked in a machine-readable format and detectable as artificially generated or manipulated. The obligation is European, a European legislature…
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Minors, AI and platforms: the default, the design and the prohibition
Within a single week three different authorities, applying three different regulations, have intervened on the same object: the child in front of an interface designed to hold their attention. On 9 July 2026 the Italian Data Protection Authority fined Character Technologies Inc. 158,000 euros, identifying concerns regarding safeguards for minors and age verification mechanisms. On…
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When data stops being personal: the EDPB on anonymisation and web scraping for generative AI
On 8 July 2026, during its latest plenary, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted guidelines on anonymisation and guidelines on web scraping in the context of generative AI, together with the final version of its guidelines on the processing of personal data through blockchain technologies. The two new documents are presented as separate texts,…
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Transparency of AI-generated content: an adequate code that is no presumption of conformity
On 8 July 2026 the European Commission concluded that the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated content adequately covers the obligations laid down in Article 50(2), (4) and (5) of the AI Act and facilitates their effective implementation. The following day the AI Board adopted its own adequacy assessment. In the very same weeks,…
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Agentic AI: technical autonomy does not create legal autonomy
Artificial Intelligence systems no longer merely generate content: they act, they send, they modify, they commit. This is the starting point of “Agentic AI: Technical Autonomy, Human Responsibility, and Legal Governance”, the book by Nicola Fabiano published in July 2026, whose thesis is declared from the opening pages and runs through the entire work: technical…
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AI AnthropoCosmic: the project for an AI at the service of Humanity, the Environment and the Cosmos (and a Call for Paper closing on 15 September)
An artificial intelligence that does not merely compete, but serves. That, in the shortest possible terms, is the proposition behind AI AnthropoCosmic, the international project promoted by the Faculty of Social Communication Sciences of the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome, led by its Dean, Prof. Fabio Pasqualetti, and presented in the press release of 10…
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AI Research Scientist: before the applications comes the research, and Europe must decide whether to keep it
Every Artificial Intelligence application we use today was born, years ago, in a scientific paper. The AI Research Scientist is the profile that generates that knowledge: it formulates theories, conducts reproducible experiments, publishes and submits to peer review. The US repertoires record it precisely; for Europe, which has set itself the target of twenty million…
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AI Machine Learning Engineer: the profile Europe seeks above all others, and the technical debt only it sees
The European analysis of Artificial Intelligence skills needs uses, for one profile alone, the adverb “especially”: the machine learning engineer. This is the figure who turns models into production systems and keeps them alive; the technical literature, from Google to the NeurIPS conference, explains why it is so difficult, and so sought after. If one…
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AI Natural Language Processing Engineer: language has become the interface of AI, and someone is needed who can handle it
Ever since we have been talking to machines, language has become the universal interface of Artificial Intelligence, and those who can build systems that understand and generate language have joined the European list of the most needed profiles. But language carries culture, variety and inequality with it: the craft of the AI Natural Language Processing…