The European Commission on Thursday unveiled a draft code of practice aimed at helping firms comply with the European Union's artificial intelligence rules and focused on copyright-protected content safeguards and measures to mitigate systemic risks.

The European Union has released a code of practice on general purpose artificial intelligence to help thousands of businesses in the 27-nation bloc using the technology comply with the bloc’s landmark AI rule book.

Signatories would benefit from a lower administrative burden and extra legal certainty to prove they comply with the AI Act.

The Polish deputy prime minister is asking the EU to investigate Grok, the AI chatbot integrated into the X social media platform.

European Union governments want Brussels to keep secret how they plan to phase out using Russian oil and gas by the end of 2027, an internal EU document seen by Reuters showed.

Two of the sources said the framework may be similar to the one agreed with Britain in May. In that deal, the U.S. cut tariffs on British-made cars to 10% and British carmakers received a import quota of 100,000 cars a year at the lower tariff rate, almost the total Britain exported last year.

The European Commission announced the European Flagship Fund for the Reconstruction of Ukraine. The aim is to help rebuild homes, hospitals, businesses and energy.

Malta did not do enough to assess the level of risk when granting a licence to a crypto company under the EU's new regulatory regime, the bloc's financial watchdog said on Thursday following an examination of the Maltese regulator.