EU blinks on Big Tech, scaling back GDPR and AI Act
The European Commission just proposed major rollbacks to GDPR and its landmark AI Act, giving tech companies more breathing room to compete with the US and China. The plan lets companies legally train AI on pseudonymized personal data and delays compliance deadlines for high-risk AI models. It also cuts down on annoying cookie pop-ups, though the changes still face months of fierce debate in the European Parliament.