{"id":1025426,"date":"2026-08-01T08:01:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025426"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:32:20","slug":"explainer-eu-gets-new-powers-over-powerful-ai-from-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/01\/explainer-eu-gets-new-powers-over-powerful-ai-from-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: EU gets new powers over powerful AI from Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels, Aug 01, 2026 -The European Union will from Sunday have the power to enforce landmark artificial intelligence rules and hit any companies breaking the law with fines. <\/p>\n<p>The EU has the world&#8217;s most comprehensive digital rulebook covering social media, online retailers and search engines, with plans for more rules this year. <\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the EU adopted a sweeping AI law known as the &#8220;AI Act&#8221;, but its rules have been introduced in stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels, Aug 01, 2026 -The European Union will from Sunday have the power to enforce landmark artificial intelligence rules and hit any companies breaking the law with fines. The EU has the world&#8217;s most comprehensive digital rulebook covering social media, online retailers and search engines, with plans for more rules this year. In 2024, the EU adopted a sweeping AI law known as the &#8220;AI Act&#8221;, but its rules have been introduced in stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025439,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025426\/revisions\/1025439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}