Luca Bertuzzi
@lucabertuzzi.bsky.social
Senior AI Correspondent at MLex. Award-winning reporter focused on digital policy & EU affairs. Ex Euractiv. Bylines at la Repubblica & Tagesspiegel.
The Commission is taking a “wait-and-see” approach on GPAI standards, with no request expected before mid-2026. By the time they’re ready, likely around 2030, the AI market may have moved on, or Brussels may have further changed its rules.
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EU’s wait-and-see approach leaves standards for AI models up in the air | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
The European Commission is delaying the launch of technical standards for the AI Act’s rules on general-purpose AI models, opting to first test the existing code of practice. The move could leave comp...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The Commission is taking a “wait-and-see” approach on GPAI standards, with no request expected before mid-2026. By the time they’re ready, likely around 2030, the AI market may have moved on, or Brussels may have further changed its rules.
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The Commission is planning to issue a crisis protocol under the DSA and administrative guidance on how to use AI in electoral processes, incl. commitments for political parties, as part of its EU Democracy Shield.
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Online services to get crisis protocol, AI poll guidance under EU Democracy Shield | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
A new crisis protocol for online services and guidance on the use of artificial intelligence in electoral processes is being prepared as part of a broader EU effort to counter information manipulation...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The Commission is planning to issue a crisis protocol under the DSA and administrative guidance on how to use AI in electoral processes, incl. commitments for political parties, as part of its EU Democracy Shield.
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The European AI Office plans to expand its team by 50+ staff as part of the digital omnibus on AI. The reform would strengthen its supervisory powers & create an EU-level regulatory sandbox, funded with €12M reallocated from the Digital Europe Programme.
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EU’s AI Office seeks over 50 staff to support centralized operations | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
The European Commission’s AI Office plans to hire an additional 53 staff as part of a plan to centralize enforcement of the bloc's AI law and manage a regulatory sandbox, MLex has learned.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The European AI Office plans to expand its team by 50+ staff as part of the digital omnibus on AI. The reform would strengthen its supervisory powers & create an EU-level regulatory sandbox, funded with €12M reallocated from the Digital Europe Programme.
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LEAK: I got my hands on the digital omnibus on AI. Some key takeaways:
▶️ Centralized enforcement
▶️ Expanded regulatory privileges
▶️ Grace period for labelling
▶️ No AI literacy obligation on companies
Another must-read on @mlexclusive 👇
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▶️ Centralized enforcement
▶️ Expanded regulatory privileges
▶️ Grace period for labelling
▶️ No AI literacy obligation on companies
Another must-read on @mlexclusive 👇
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Planned EU AI Act changes to include centralized enforcement, regulatory tweaks | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
Amendments to the EU's AI Act to be proposed on Nov. 19 look to include easing compliance burdens and centralizing enforcement through the European Commission's AI Office. An early draft, obtained by ...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
LEAK: I got my hands on the digital omnibus on AI. Some key takeaways:
▶️ Centralized enforcement
▶️ Expanded regulatory privileges
▶️ Grace period for labelling
▶️ No AI literacy obligation on companies
Another must-read on @mlexclusive 👇
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
▶️ Centralized enforcement
▶️ Expanded regulatory privileges
▶️ Grace period for labelling
▶️ No AI literacy obligation on companies
Another must-read on @mlexclusive 👇
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Does the EU AI Act apply to AI agents? The Commission’s initial views seem to suggest AI agents might not always qualify as an AI system. MEP Lagodinsky asked the Commission to clarify its position and warned about a potential misalignment.
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EU Commission’s preliminary views on AI agents raise legal applicability question | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
EU digital chief Henna Virkkunen shared the European Commission’s initial views, prompting questions on whether AI agents always qualify as AI systems under the AI Act. Lawmaker Sergey Lagodinsky ask...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Does the EU AI Act apply to AI agents? The Commission’s initial views seem to suggest AI agents might not always qualify as an AI system. MEP Lagodinsky asked the Commission to clarify its position and warned about a potential misalignment.
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SCOOP: The Commission is moving to recognize “legitimate interest” as the legal basis for training AI models under the GDPR. The proposal, part of the upcoming digital omnibus, is now under formal discussion between DG CNECT and DG JUST. w/ Matthew Newman
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EU Commission eyes codifying ‘legitimate interest’ as legal basis for AI training | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
The European Commission is close to presenting an amendment to the GDPR that would codify “legitimate interest” as the legal basis for training AI systems with personal data. The proposal is currently...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
SCOOP: The Commission is moving to recognize “legitimate interest” as the legal basis for training AI models under the GDPR. The proposal, part of the upcoming digital omnibus, is now under formal discussion between DG CNECT and DG JUST. w/ Matthew Newman
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The European AI Board is set for a staged internal reform as EU countries prepare to decide on the role, term length, and renewals of its future chair. If all goes to plan, the board’s first elected chair could be chosen at the December meeting.
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EU AI regulators' body set for staged reform as chair’s term under discussion | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
The European AI Board, the body that brings together AI regulators in the EU, appears headed for a staged internal reform, according to internal documents obtained by MLex. National representatives ar...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The European AI Board is set for a staged internal reform as EU countries prepare to decide on the role, term length, and renewals of its future chair. If all goes to plan, the board’s first elected chair could be chosen at the December meeting.
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The Cybersecurity Act revision and the Digital Networks Act have been postponed to Jan. 20, following negative opinions by the Regulatory Scrutiny Board.
November 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The Cybersecurity Act revision and the Digital Networks Act have been postponed to Jan. 20, following negative opinions by the Regulatory Scrutiny Board.
The EU declaration on digital sovereignty is converging with the Franco-German summit agenda — EU countries are set to sign it in Berlin. A new draft shifts focus to partners sharing EU values, national control over tech, & drops open-source preferences.
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EU digital sovereignty declaration due to be signed at Berlin summit Nov 18 | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
A European declaration on digital sovereignty is due to be signed by EU member states at a Franco-German summit in Berlin on Nov. 18, marking a key policy staging post in the bloc's drive to take grea...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The EU declaration on digital sovereignty is converging with the Franco-German summit agenda — EU countries are set to sign it in Berlin. A new draft shifts focus to partners sharing EU values, national control over tech, & drops open-source preferences.
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MEP Sergey Lagodinsky has filed a complaint with the EU Ombudsman, arguing that the AI Act’s Code of Practice on GPAI lets model providers avoid disclosing training energy use, contradicting the law’s transparency requirements.
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EU lawmaker files complaint over AI Act’s energy disclosure application | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
EU lawmaker Sergey Lagodinsky has lodged a complaint with the EU Ombudsman, alleging that the European Commission’s code of practice for general-purpose AI models is not aligned with the AI Act’s ener...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
MEP Sergey Lagodinsky has filed a complaint with the EU Ombudsman, arguing that the AI Act’s Code of Practice on GPAI lets model providers avoid disclosing training energy use, contradicting the law’s transparency requirements.
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Germany’s digital ministry is pushing for an extensive pause of the AI Act and some radical ideas for softening the law, such as expanding the research exemptions, removing some high-risk areas, and scrapping fundamental rights impact assessments.
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German digital ministry asks for significant softening, delays of EU AI Act | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
Germany’s digital ministry is pushing for a one-year delay and major relaxations to the EU AI Act, including lighter obligations for SMEs, removal of the fundamental rights impact assessment, and broa...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Germany’s digital ministry is pushing for an extensive pause of the AI Act and some radical ideas for softening the law, such as expanding the research exemptions, removing some high-risk areas, and scrapping fundamental rights impact assessments.
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The Commission is weighing changes to how the AI Act applies to products already regulated under EU safety laws as part of the upcoming digital omnibus due on Nov. 19. This might ease compliance for sectors like medical devices & industrial machineries.
October 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Commission is weighing changes to how the AI Act applies to products already regulated under EU safety laws as part of the upcoming digital omnibus due on Nov. 19. This might ease compliance for sectors like medical devices & industrial machineries.
The EU AI Act’s standards saga goes global. ISO/IEC’s AI committee rejected CEN-led parallel work on computer vision & NLP standards after European standard-setters paused the consensus process, in a major setback for global alignment and efficiency.
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EU AI standard setters’ pause of consensus process has international fallout | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
International standardization bodies ISO and IEC have turned down the parallel development of two much-needed standards for the EU AI Act with European counterparts CEN and Cenelec after the latter ab...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The EU AI Act’s standards saga goes global. ISO/IEC’s AI committee rejected CEN-led parallel work on computer vision & NLP standards after European standard-setters paused the consensus process, in a major setback for global alignment and efficiency.
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OpenAI, xAI & Mistral may have just received their first EU AI Act warning shot. Dutch regulator AP found ChatGPT, Grok & le Chat gave biased voting advice ahead of elections — a potential breach of new GPAI rules.
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OpenAI, xAI, Mistral get a shot across the bows to beware EU AI Act enforcement | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
OpenAI, xAI and Mistral could be open to legal risk after the findings of a Dutch privacy probe into election advice this week appeared to expose early violations of the EU AI Act’s rules for general-...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
OpenAI, xAI & Mistral may have just received their first EU AI Act warning shot. Dutch regulator AP found ChatGPT, Grok & le Chat gave biased voting advice ahead of elections — a potential breach of new GPAI rules.
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🚨 Standard-setters have abandoned their consensus-driven process to speed up work on the EU AI Act’s standards. CEN & Cenelec’s technical board will task a small group of experts to finalize delayed standards, a move that has sparked a strong backlash.
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European standard-setters to hand delayed AI standards to selected experts | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
The European standardization bodies in charge of developing the AI Act's standards have taken the unprecedented decision to suspend their usual consensus-driven process and tasked selected experts wit...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🚨 Standard-setters have abandoned their consensus-driven process to speed up work on the EU AI Act’s standards. CEN & Cenelec’s technical board will task a small group of experts to finalize delayed standards, a move that has sparked a strong backlash.
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The Commission quietly published its “cloud sovereignty framework” to reduce reliance on foreign providers and boost EU control over critical infrastructure. Though meant for its own tenders, it’s likely to shape the upcoming Cloud and AI Development Act.
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Cloud providers see EU Commission set out its approach to ‘cloud sovereignty’ | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
The European Commission has unveiled an internal “cloud sovereignty framework” to reduce reliance on foreign cloud providers, setting out eight sovereignty objectives and assessment criteria. Though l...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The Commission quietly published its “cloud sovereignty framework” to reduce reliance on foreign providers and boost EU control over critical infrastructure. Though meant for its own tenders, it’s likely to shape the upcoming Cloud and AI Development Act.
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BREAKING: ChatGPT could soon fall under the DSA rules after OpenAI revealed its search feature has over 120M monthly users in the EU, far above the “systemic risk” threshold. Formal designation and calculation of the supervisory fee could take a few weeks.
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OpenAI inches toward seeing ChatGPT regulated under EU digital rulebook | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
OpenAI’s ChatGPT has surpassed 120 million monthly users in the EU, crossing the 45 million threshold that could see it designated as a “systemic risk” search engine under the Digital Services Act. Th...
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October 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
BREAKING: ChatGPT could soon fall under the DSA rules after OpenAI revealed its search feature has over 120M monthly users in the EU, far above the “systemic risk” threshold. Formal designation and calculation of the supervisory fee could take a few weeks.
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MEPs are preparing to call for EU copyright rules to apply to all generative AI systems placed on the EU market, even if trained abroad. A new compromise backs making respect of EU copyright law a market entry requirement under the AI Act.
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Generative AI developers to see EU lawmakers call for extraterritorial copyright | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
EU lawmakers are preparing to call for EU copyright laws to apply extraterritorially to generative AI systems, meaning AI models trained outside the bloc would still need to comply with EU copyright r...
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October 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
MEPs are preparing to call for EU copyright rules to apply to all generative AI systems placed on the EU market, even if trained abroad. A new compromise backs making respect of EU copyright law a market entry requirement under the AI Act.
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Austria has kicked off efforts to define what “digital sovereignty” means for Europe with a first draft of an EU declaration laying out guiding principles to shape future priorities, stressing that digital sovereignty is about autonomy, not isolation.
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Austria puts forth common understanding of digital sovereignty in draft EU declaration | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
Austria has circulated the EU’s first draft declaration on digital sovereignty, proposing common guiding principles to ensure Europe’s technological independence while avoiding protectionism. The non-...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Austria has kicked off efforts to define what “digital sovereignty” means for Europe with a first draft of an EU declaration laying out guiding principles to shape future priorities, stressing that digital sovereignty is about autonomy, not isolation.
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Austria has kicked off efforts to define what “digital sovereignty” means for Europe with a first draft of an EU declaration laying out guiding principles to shape future priorities, stressing that digital sovereignty is about autonomy, not isolation.
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Austria puts forth common understanding of digital sovereignty in draft EU declaration | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
Austria has circulated the EU’s first draft declaration on digital sovereignty, proposing common guiding principles to ensure Europe’s technological independence while avoiding protectionism. The non-...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Austria has kicked off efforts to define what “digital sovereignty” means for Europe with a first draft of an EU declaration laying out guiding principles to shape future priorities, stressing that digital sovereignty is about autonomy, not isolation.
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Last week, the EU's Joint Research Centre released a set of external studies on general-purpose AI models. They don’t officially represent the Commission’s views, but they could shape how the AI Act’s GPAI rules are interpreted in practice. 1/4👇
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AI model developers see EU rules become clearer with scientific studies | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
The European Commission’s research arm recently published six studies offering scientific methods and benchmarks that could shape enforcement of the AI Act’s rules for general-purpose AI models. The r...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Last week, the EU's Joint Research Centre released a set of external studies on general-purpose AI models. They don’t officially represent the Commission’s views, but they could shape how the AI Act’s GPAI rules are interpreted in practice. 1/4👇
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No common specs in sight for the AI Act. The commission told MEPs today it isn’t planning to develop mandatory “common specifications,” even though the technical standards for the high-risk rules will be late for the Aug. 2026 deadline.
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EU Commission not considering mandatory requirements despite AI standards delays | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
The European Commission is currently not considering developing mandatory “common specifications” under the AI Act despite delays in drafting technical standards for high-risk AI systems. Commission o...
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October 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
No common specs in sight for the AI Act. The commission told MEPs today it isn’t planning to develop mandatory “common specifications,” even though the technical standards for the high-risk rules will be late for the Aug. 2026 deadline.
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The European Commission has given its first preview of how the digital omnibus will amend the EU AI Act. Topics “under consideration”: interplay with other laws, governance, innovation, SME exemptions, and a possible timeline alignment.
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EU Commission sets out focus of AI law amendments to improve implementation | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
The European Commission is considering amending the EU's AI law to address implementation hurdles, clarify overlaps with other EU legislation, reinforce governance, expand innovation measures and exte...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The European Commission has given its first preview of how the digital omnibus will amend the EU AI Act. Topics “under consideration”: interplay with other laws, governance, innovation, SME exemptions, and a possible timeline alignment.
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The European AI Board could be in for a major shake-up, as Austria is pushing to downsize the role of the Commission's AI Office in favor of an elected chair and clarify the role of the body's subgroups. Full story on @mlexclusive.
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EU Commission's influence in AI regulatory body facing challenge | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
Austria is pushing a major overhaul of the European AI Board’s rules that could limit the European Commission’s influence and empower an elected chair. The proposal includes clarifying the AI Office’s...
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October 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The European AI Board could be in for a major shake-up, as Austria is pushing to downsize the role of the Commission's AI Office in favor of an elected chair and clarify the role of the body's subgroups. Full story on @mlexclusive.
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The Netherlands weighs in on the EU’s digital simplification agenda. Key message: focus on legal clarity, not deregulation. It also calls for streamlined governance of EU boards and, on the AI Act, urges simplification over delays.
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EU digital laws overhaul must prioritize legal clarity, Dutch government warns | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
A planned overhaul of EU digital legislation must focus on legal clarity and coherence, the Dutch government is urging the European Commission. In a document shared with other governments, it calls fo...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The Netherlands weighs in on the EU’s digital simplification agenda. Key message: focus on legal clarity, not deregulation. It also calls for streamlined governance of EU boards and, on the AI Act, urges simplification over delays.
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