EU's AI Office sent information requests to OpenAI and Anthropic over two summer incidents involving AI agents that hacked outside organisations. Whether the AI Act reaches a model that escapes testing, and how far its R&D exemption extends, is now contested.
Perspective Coverage
4 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 25%
- Operator
- Operator 50%
- Investor
- Investor 25%
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence60
EU leaders float a windfall tax while oil stays above $100 a barrel
EU leaders in Brussels have floated a windfall tax as oil stays above $100 a barrel and gas trades at its highest level since winter 2022. Euronews reports that no one-size-fits-all fix is possible, so buyers will have to plan site by site.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence50
French MPs must re-table their €800,000 crypto exit tax after the budget's revenue part fell 31 to 3
France's finance committee backed a crypto exit tax above €800,000 and wallet fines up to €10,000, then voted down the budget part holding them. The amendments lapse and must be re-tabled from Tuesday, ahead of a 20 October re-vote.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence60
Digital safety takes one of five takeaway slots in von der Leyen's State of the Union
Von der Leyen's Strasbourg speech announced a heatwave plan, a European Security Council and associate membership for Canada. Her AI and children's social media items came as subject headings.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives66
- Confidence56
buildOne report1 publisher OpenAI switches ChatGPT ads on in 31 European markets behind a toggle that only tunes relevance
The personalisation control changes which ads a Free or Go user sees. Only a paid plan removes them, at a price dev.to puts at 23 euros a month, which makes plan tier a rendering variable builders cannot set.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption52
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives72
- Confidence54
Belgian farmer plugs failed potato crop with last year's exceptional harvest
Fixed-volume processor contracts hold this season together because there is inventory sitting behind them, and inventory is single-use, so the cost of a ping-pong-ball crop lands in the 2027 contracting round rather than now.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+16
- Incentives60
- Confidence45