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The European Commission fined AliExpress €550 million for Digital Services Act failures tied to counterfeit and unsafe products, the largest DSA penalty issued so far.

Brussels says Meta failed to assess addiction risks from infinite scroll, autoplay and recommender systems on Instagram and Facebook, exposing the company to a fine of up to 6% of global turnover.

Ember data shows solar supplied 25 percent of EU electricity in June 2026, a record 52 TWh that outranked nuclear, gas, wind, hydro, and coal for only the third month ever.

The General Court in Luxembourg rejected all of Apple's challenges to its DMA gatekeeper designation, ruling its five App Stores count as one service.

Europe's Court of Justice dismissed Google and Alphabet's appeal on July 2, 2026, confirming a roughly €4.1 billion penalty over Android licensing practices and leaving no further right to appeal.

The European Commission's preliminary view targets Amazon's and Microsoft's cloud arms, the first DMA designation made without meeting the law's quantitative thresholds.

The European Commission named EUROPA, led by Italy's Domyn, winner of its Frontier AI Grand Challenge to build an open model above 400 billion parameters.

Enovos approved the FID for LuxHyVal, a 5 MW electrolyzer in Bascharage backed by the EU Clean Hydrogen Partnership. Construction starts Q4 2026, commissioning in 2027.

The European Parliament and Council reached a provisional political agreement on May 7 to simplify the AI Act, shifting key compliance deadlines and adding a new ban on nonconsensual intimate imagery.

The European Commission issued preliminary findings on April 29 that Meta violated the DSA by allowing children under 13 to create accounts using false birth dates, with potential fines reaching 6% of its global turnover.

Four months before the EU AI Act's core provisions take effect, the European Commission's public register shows that only eight of 27 member states have designated the national authorities required to enforce it.

The Commission says its new age-verification app is ready for deployment, but researchers and privacy advocates are already flagging security and platform-dependence concerns.