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Google pays $35M in Australia over anti-competitive deals, the US and EU strike a $750B trade pact, and Nvidia designs a new AI chip for China amid Washington’s export limits.
India is now OpenAI’s second-largest market after the United States.
By separating Password Manager into an app, Google hopes to compete more directly with services like LastPass and 1Password instead of remaining hidden inside Chrome.
Julia Villagra’s exit adds to leadership changes at OpenAI, with the company balancing expansion, fierce competition with Meta, and rising public concerns about AI’s impact.
Gemini's environmental footprint estimates face criticism for omitting indirect water use.
Deepfakes invert old privacy harms, with fabricated images damaging reputations even without distribution.
A single click can trigger password leaks in top browser-based managers.
Science lifts warning on paper claiming evidence of Majorana quasiparticles.
The launch coincides with federal plans to boost AI while limiting regulation-heavy states.
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Digital Technologies
From internet applications to quantum computing, we focus on advanced and emerging digital technologies which are increasingly reshaping our economies and societies.
Clusters of Policy topics
We unpack digital policy by exploring over 50 topics – from access and sustainable development to network security and the future of work – classified in 7 clusters.
Processes
Follow some of the most important digital policy processes, from the EU's work on the Digital Services Act/Digital Markets Act to the UN Cybercrime Ad Hoc Committee.