Meta's Moves in the EU: Good For Compliance and the Brand.
Plus the AI Headlines for Boards and Brand Leaders
The recent headlines around Meta using public EU user data for AI training hold an important lesson for global businesses: data privacy laws (and public attentiveness) require vastly different strategies in the EU versus the US.
The core issue: the EU (27 countries) enforces strict GDPR compliance with significant user rights and oversight, while the US operates under looser, contract-focused rules primarily concerned with preventing deceptive practices. Maybe that is why Meta's moves have been so public. They virtually guarantee that its EU members (and authorities) know it is complying with GDPR rules for AI.
For Boards and Leaders, the lessons are fairly clear: Failing to meet the EU's high standards, or slow-walking compliance, carries severe dual risks – not only the potentially massive fines but also significant damage to your brand's reputation in a market highly attentive to privacy rights.
Therefore, tuning global strategies, investing in robust and transparent EU compliance, and managing brand perception through communication in each region are essential to mitigating risk and maintaining customer trust.
Now, the AI headlines for Boards and Brand Leaders over the past couple of days:
AI Agents
Agentic AI Is The Next Frontier Of B2B Innovation. Forbes
Agentic AI might soon get into cryptocurrency trading. Computerworld
CyberArk Strengthens Identity Security for AI Agents with Accenture’s AI Refinery. itwire.com
Google mobilizes partners to drive agentic AI across clouds. CIO Dive
Google Unveils The Most Comprehensive Agent Strategy At Cloud Next 2025. Forbes
Google Cloud Next 2025: Agentic AI Stack, Multimodality, And Sovereignty. Forrester
Is There More Potential For Adobe’s Agentic Roadmap In The B2B Postsale?. Forrester
It’s the Age of AI Agents!. Open Source For You
OutSystems Announces ONE 2025: The Future of AI-Powered Application and Agent Development Unveiled. Laotian Times
What Are AI Agents and How Should We Use Them?. Irving Wladawsky-Berger
AI Regulation, Governance & Policy
AI in Local Government: How Counties & Cities Are Advancing AI Governance. Center for Democracy and Technology
AI, Digital Assets, and Public Trust: Inside the House of Lords. CXOTalk
Cuomo Announces New Housing Plan, With a Hint of ChatGPT. www.nytimes.com
EU AI Act Brief - Pt. 4, AI at Work - Center for Democracy and Technology. Center for Democracy and Technology
Exploring the 2024 Federal AI Inventories: Key Improvements, Trends, and Continued Inconsistencies. Center for Democracy and Technology
Lawmakers strive to protect New York’s universal broadband rollout. Route Fifty
Meta will train AI models using EU user data. AI News
Tisa calls on UK regulators to clamp down on AI search engines. Finextra Research
Kevin Fumai’s remarkable “AI Governance Resource Repository (must check this out). www.linkedin.com
AI in Business Strategy & Operations
3 Tips For Employers Using AI Interviewing Tools. www.law360.com
Employee experience remains key to ServiceNow and Accenture’s AI collaboration. SiliconANGLE
How Emerging Tech Is Reshaping the Creative Process. www.adweek.com
Insight in action: Gen AI use cases for CFOs and procurement. Capgemini
Managing the “White Space” of AI to Achieve Operational Excellence. The European Business Review
Social inflation is costing insurers-here's how cloud and AI can help. Microsoft Industry Blogs
The CIO’s AI dilemma: Build, buy, or borrow?. ETCIO.com
This Startup Helps Marketers Understand What AI Says About Them. Here’s the Pitch Deck It Used To Nab $5.75M. www.adweek.com
Top AI Cloud Business Management Platform Tools 2025. Tech Marketing Café
What Is Holding Up AI Adoption for Businesses? New EPAM Study Reveals Key Findings. www.prnewswire.com
AI Development, Technology & Infrastructure
A faster way to solve complex planning problems. MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Apple leans on synthetic data to upgrade AI privately. AI News
Choose the Right LLM: Why AI Flexibility Matters for Mainframe Transformation. BMC Blogs
Copilot Recall: Microsoft rolls out AI screenshot tool. www.bbc.com
Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2. Google
Meta FAIR advances human-like AI with five major releases. AI News
Microsoft's record-everything Recall feature is rolling out now. Mashable
OpenAI launches o3 and o4-mini, AI models that ‘think with images’ and use tools autonomously. VentureBeat
Predictions 2025: Accelerated Demand For AI-Powered Infrastructure And Operations. Forrester
Seven lessons from building with AI. www.exponentialview.co
Sovereign AI: NexGen Cloud Gets Funds For Its Infrastructure In Europe. Forrester
Transforming real-time monitoring with AI-enhanced digital twins. AI News
Understanding Aggregate Trends for Apple Intelligence Using Differential Privacy. Apple Machine Learning Research
AI Ethics, Security & Societal Impact
‘Fake news detection’ AI is more likely to fail in the Global South, new study shows. Nieman Lab
‘Human Made’: Artists Push Back on A.I. Dolls and Action Figures. www.nytimes.com
‘I sent AI to art school!’ The postmodern master who taught a machine to beef up his old work. the Guardian
AI hype exposed: Most 'advanced' firms can’t deliver real results. Customer Experience Magazine
Consumers Are More Concerned About GenAI Than You Think. Forrester
CyberArk Warns About Cybersecurity Threats To AI Agents And LLM. Forbes
Forrester’s Top Threats For 2025. Forrester
Generative AI hype: Debunking 4 myths for IT leaders. Elastic Blog
How to tell if it's real AI or just automation at a higher price. MarTech
Overcoming AI Hallucinations: Truist’s Chandra Kapireddy. MIT Sloan Management Review
Sift Expands Partner Program to Address Evolving AI-Driven Fraud. MSSP Alert
The Tech Exec’s Guide To Decoding Cybersecurity Vendor Performance. Forrester
This Therapist Helped Clients Feel Better. It Was A.I.. www.nytimes.com
Training LLMs to self-detoxify their language. MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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