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Every Silicon AI News story involving European Union, month by month, newest first.
Apple also showed a new Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini on October 13. Siri AI starts as a test version in English and in eight countries, and HomeView will not be sold in the EU.
Apple unveiled HomeView, a 7-inch screen for the home, at its “Welcome home” event in New York. It costs $299 and arrives on November 13, on the same day as a new $299 Apple TV 4K. A new $149 HomePod mini ships on October 30, but it gets Siri AI only in a later update.
The system is now called Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe. Germany’s transport ministry had called the old name misleading, and now says it will back an EU-wide approval, which cannot be voted on before December.
Germany’s transport ministry said on October 6 that Tesla had offered to rename its FSD driver-assistance system, after talks in September. The ministry had found the name somewhat misleading. By October 9, Tesla’s European websites used the new name, Tesla Assisted Driving. Germany says it will now support approval across the EU.
An invisible mark will go into ChatGPT and Codex text for EU users in the coming weeks. OpenAI’s own tests show that swapping a quarter of the words hides most of it.
OpenAI said on October 5 that it will add an invisible watermark, called textGrain, to eligible ChatGPT and Codex text for users in the European Union. API customers anywhere can turn it on for select models. At first, only approved researchers can use the detector.
The UK watchdog found 6,310 illegal AI-made images in the first half of 2026, 40% more than in all of last year. It asks the EU to agree a long-delayed law on detecting such material.
The Internet Watch Foundation said on October 5 that its analysts assessed 6,310 AI-generated images of child sexual abuse from January to June 2026. That is 40% more than the 4,512 it found in the whole of 2025. Girls appear in 98% of the images where age and gender were recorded.
The two July orders give rival AI assistants equal access to Android features and share Google’s search data with competitors. Google says users’ privacy would suffer.
Google has filed challenges at the EU General Court against two Digital Markets Act decisions that the European Commission adopted on July 16, Reuters and Bloomberg report. One requires Google to give rival AI assistants the same access to Android features as its own Gemini. The other makes it share search data with rival search engines, including AI chatbots.
The test is whether research reaches real factories.
The EIT programme plans to support founders, fund scale-ups, and connect robotics teams with industry through 2028. Its targets are useful, but they are goals rather than delivered products.
A European expert group says policy should cover the full path from brain data to AI models and later uses. Its statement is advice, not a new law.