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Fiscal year 2027 started on 1 October with the US government open. That’s worth saying, because over the past twelve months it often wasn’t. It’s running on a continuing resolution. H.R. 6500, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027, became …
There is still no federal law that overrides state AI rules in the United States. Twenty-one months into an administration that wants one, …
In June 2025 a French Senate inquiry asked Microsoft France’s legal director a simple question. Could he guarantee that data about French …
On 28 September 2026 China’s Commerce Ministry confirmed what Washington had announced a few days earlier: the US–China trade truce is …
On 5 December 2025 the European Commission issued the first fine under the Digital Services Act: €120 million against X. The charges were …
The Department of Government Efficiency formally ended on 4 July 2026, the date written into the executive order that created it. There was …
Every EU member state has to offer its citizens a digital identity wallet by 24 December 2026. That’s the deadline set by the European …
On 29 May 2026 the European Commission paid Poland €6.56 billion. It was the first pre-financing payment under SAFE, the EU’s €150 billion …
In 2025, Danes used MitID, their national digital login, an average of 94.4 million times a month. That’s in a country of about six million …
The EU’s AI Act was meant to bite hardest on 2 August 2026. That was the date when rules for high-risk AI, the systems that screen job …