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BMW reported a clear drop in profit, and several other German carmakers released similarly bad results in the same week, according to Tagesschau.
From Sunday, a European Union law called the AI Act requires companies to say clearly when a chatbot, image or video was made or altered by artificial intelligence.
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Japan and triggered a tsunami alert, a warning that dangerous sea waves may follow.
The European Commission wants a new tax on companies with yearly sales above €100 million, with the money going straight to the EU instead of coming from national governments.
The European Commission says TikTok's handling of minors' accounts may breach the Digital Services Act — a preliminary charge that opens a right of reply and, potentially, fines of up to 6% of global turnover.
EU member states are restoring a temporary, voluntary measure that lets platforms keep scanning private messages for child sexual abuse material — a bloc-wide privacy trade-off renewed as a stopgap.
The ECB left rates unchanged but kept a September hike on the table — and the deciding factor is now the oil price, not the domestic economy.
The European Commission has handed Google binding instructions to open Android and its search engine to AI assistants and competing search services. It is a textbook demonstration of how gatekeeper enforcement under the Digital Markets Act actually bites — not a lawsuit years away, but an order that lands now.
Hungary's parliament passed a constitutional amendment on Monday removing president Tamás Sulyok, an Orbán loyalist, in the post-Orbán government's most concrete move to dismantle the old system.
One of Spain's deadliest wildfires killed 13, and now PM Pedro Sánchez wants prevention. Meanwhile France is chasing the possibility that a fire near Paris was set on purpose. Two countries, one blistering summer, and a fire season that no longer respects national lines.
South Africa says it has deported more than 53,000 undocumented migrants as anti-immigration protests spread — a shift that could ripple across Southern Africa's migration corridors.
Rep. Nancy Mace is openly interested in Lindsey Graham's vacant Senate seat, while Politico reports top House Republicans are privately working to keep their own members from being appointed. The fight over the Senate's loudest pro-Ukraine seat now runs straight through the House majority math.