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  • Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speak with reporters during the Ukraine Recovery Conference at La Nuvola convention center in Rome, Italy, on July 10, 2025. (Photo by Massimo Valicchia/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Finance

    EU warns Italy over meddling in UniCredit’s Banco BPM takeover

    By Samuel Stolton, Sonia Sirletti, and others
  • Elon Musk shaking people's hands.Tech

    Musk’s empire risks being targeted by EU for potential X fines

    By Samuel Stolton and Bloomberg
  • Young successful girl getting out of a private jet parked on a runway. She is using a mobile phone.Politics

    Golden EU passports for the rich get legal boost at bloc’s highest court

    By Samuel Stolton and Bloomberg
  • Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during an interview on "The Circuit with Emily Chang" at Google's Bay View campus in Mountain View, California, US, on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Pichai says artificial intelligence has been a key focus of the Google parent since 2016, back when ChatGPT-maker OpenAI was in its infancy. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Google had €470 million to spare so it offered to derail Microsoft’s antitrust pact

    By Samuel Stolton and Bloomberg
  • Margrethe Vestager holds hand outwardRegulators

    There’s a ‘huge bottleneck’ in Nvidia AI chips, but that doesn’t mean regulatory action, EU competition chief says

    By Philip J. Heijmans, Samuel Stolton, and others
  • CTO of X, formerly known as Twitter, Elon Musk.Tech

    Elon Musk could be the next target for EU’s big tech crackdown as X continues to house dangerous content

    By Samuel Stolton, Jillian Deutsch, and others
  • Kevin Scott, executive vice president of AI and chief technology officer of Microsoft Corp., right, and Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, at the Microsoft Build event in Seattle, Washington, US, on Tuesday, May 21, 2024.Regulators

    The EU plans to grill Microsoft rivals about the $13 billion it’s throwing into OpenAI

    By Samuel Stolton and Bloomberg
  • Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, US, on Monday, June 10, 2024. The conference will show whether Apple Inc. can become a major player in the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, marking a critical moment for a company forced to adapt to a new era. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Apple’s feud with Europe’s DMA intensifies as iPhone maker gets hit for ‘illegal practices’ by not offering cheaper prices outside the App Store

    By Samuel Stolton and Bloomberg
  • Satya Nadella, CEO of MicrosoftTech

    Microsoft’s $13 billion deal with OpenAI falls short of a takeover, EU competition regulator finds

    By Samuel Stolton and Bloomberg
  • BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – FEBRUARY 8: Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age and European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager is talking to media in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter on February 8, 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. Today, the executive branch of the European Union adopted an update of its guidelines for defining markets, which it uses to delimit competition between companies when assessing mergers or possible monopoly cases, in order to adapt it to the new economic reality. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)Tech

    Apple hit with $2bn EU fine over silencing music-streaming rivals like Spotify on its platforms

    By Samuel Stolton and Bloomberg
  • BRAZIL – 2023/07/07: In this photo illustration, the IRobot and Amazon logo is displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Tech

    Amazon now is being probed by the EU over whether it’s killing competition in the robot vacuum cleaner market

    By Samuel Stolton and Bloomberg
  • WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 13: Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, leaves the “AI Insight Forum” at the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on September 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. Lawmakers are seeking input from business leaders in the artificial intelligence sector, and some of their most ardent opponents, for writing legislation governing the rapidly evolving technology. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)Tech

    Google at 25 faces antitrust threats on both sides of the Atlantic that could break up its business

    By Samuel Stolton and Bloomberg