Daily Recap

Thursday, 07 May 2026

Technology policy dominated the day’s headlines, with governments on both sides of the Atlantic moving to draw sharper lines around AI and digital power. In Europe, Greece proposed a constitutional amendment that would require artificial intelligence to serve human society and protect individual freedoms, an unusually ambitious attempt to embed human oversight at the highest legal level. At the same time, the EU is pressing ahead with a ban on so-called AI “nudification” tools before early August, targeting non-consensual synthetic sexual content across image, video, and audio. In the UK, Google is facing a new £3 billion legal claim over allegations it monopolised the display advertising market, opening another front in the widening scrutiny of Big Tech competition. Elsewhere, the news cycle briefly veered from technology to Washington, as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the birth of her daughter, Viviana, and said she will take maternity leave.

Recap for Thursday, 07 May 2026

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