Author: David Latona, Michel Rose and Renee Maltezou
European nations are ratcheting up the pressure on social media companies, responding to a public outcry over child safety fears but risking a backlash from the United States, home to the likes of Facebook and Elon Musk’s X. Spain on Tuesday ordered prosecutors to investigate Facebook owner Meta, X and TikTok for allegedly spreading AI-generated child sexual images, after a similar move in Britain. Ireland also opened a formal probe of X’s AI chatbot Grok over its processing of personal data and the production of harmful sexualized images.Read More
Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded a weeklong round of negotiations on draft annex for Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) – a key component of the WHO Pandemic Agreement.Read More
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Colorado’s energy debate has become increasingly disconnected from the realities of how energy systems operate. Colorado politics has framed energy policy as a moral choice rather than a systems ch…Read More
Lisa Su, the visionary CEO of semiconductor company AMD, will join Purdue President Mung Chiang on March 2 for the next Presidential Lecture Series event.Read More
New tariff authority tied to Iran-linked trade and renewed US maritime guidance near the Strait of Hormuz show a familiar pattern: Washington is turning “national security” tools into daily friction for commerce. These costs are easy to trigger and harder to unwind.Read More
Gary Barlow of Take That has signed an exclusive global publishing deal with BMG, covering his entire catalog including group hits and solo material.Read More
LODZ, Poland, February 17th, 2026, ChainwireBTCC, the world’s longest-serving cryptocurrency exchange, announces the launch o…Read More
SecurePay merchants gain PayPal, Venmo, pay-later and fraud tools under OLB’s global deal, aimed at raising payment volumes as rollout begins in Q1 2026.Read More
The Institute of Global Politics (IGP) and Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia…Read More