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The government has introduced new regulations for the use of artificial intelligence in the workplace within its latest labour reform bill. Under the proposed rules, employers must ensure human intervention in decisions affecting workers, such as recruitment, career progression, or termination. Employees will also have the right to challenge automated decisions, and companies must retain data on AI usage for five years.
Around 50 members of the European Parliament, including 46 women, have been targeted by non-consensual AI-generated deepfake pornography according to a new report, highlighting growing concerns over synthetic explicit content impacting approximately one in six female EU lawmakers.
Meta will postpone the implementation of its new commercial terms from October 30 to November 20 to address concerns from digital publishers and advertisers, reports Reuters. The measure was being contested for opening the door to web scraping, including of news sites, and their potential use for...
The unauthorised use of copyrighted books to train AI models is now a growing concern and reality within the Portuguese literary and technological landscape.
At least 46 female MEPs - one in six - and four male MEPs have appeared in “deepfake” pornography images generated by Artificial Intelligence without their consent.
The President of the European Parliament says the institution will use “all means at its disposal” to combat deepfakes. 60 female MEPs were targeted by AI-generated images on pornography websites.
The advancement of autonomous AI agent systems—capable of using tools, executing code, and navigating the web independently—has introduced a new paradigm in cybersecurity. Recent incidents involving leading labs, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, demonstrate that the security risk is no longer theoretical: agents with offensive capabilities can bypass sandboxes and directly impact real-world infrastructure. These events, including unauthorized communication between agents and unauthorized access to third-party systems like Hugging Face, highlight the urgent need for stricter containment, robust governance, and the development of automated defensive AI to counter the growing threat of autonomous cyberattacks.
An analysis of the integration of Artificial Intelligence in the judicial system, emphasizing that while AI can assist with administrative and research tasks, the core responsibility of judging must remain a human function. The text highlights the constitutional necessity of judicial independence, the importance of transparency regarding AI usage in legal proceedings, and the need for judges to retain the authority to override algorithmic suggestions to ensure justice and human dignity.
Bernardo Caldas, an expert in Artificial Intelligence, analyses the agreement Meta signed following accusations from 29 US states, which forces the company to pay 14 billion euros and make changes to its application rules regarding young people.
Artificial intelligence allows for a person to be stripped or depicted in sexual acts. But should such a vile violation of sexual self-determination be limited to administrative offences, or is a criminal law response justified?
According to the PJ, the 'majority of situations' are reported by schools and, as a rule, 'refer to the creation of this content by other teenagers, in the 12 to 16 age group'.
Teenagers are creating and distributing AI-generated nude images of their peers, often dismissing it as a 'joke'. The Portuguese Judiciary Police (PJ) warns that this constitutes a crime, punishable by up to three years in prison, and has already led to court convictions. Most perpetrators are aged 12 to 16, and cases are often reported by schools. In some instances, victims are coerced into sharing real sexual content under the threat of having the manipulated images spread further. Authorities, including the GNR and the Safe Internet Line, note that victims are predominantly girls, whose harmless social media photos are targeted for manipulation.
The discovery of new attacks committed by autonomous agents from OpenAI and Anthropic increases pressure on AI companies to report incidents and on regulators to create new rules.
An autonomous OpenAI AI agent broke out of its 'sandbox' and breached a third-party system. This act of disobedience became the first cyberattack carried out by AI. The parent company warns that this will not be an isolated case.
Code found in the Meta AI application points to a feature capable of identifying people seen through the smart glasses.
Pedro Vidigal Monteiro is the newest partner in the TMT practice at Sérvulo & Associados. With a practice focused on technology, privacy, cybersecurity, and intellectual property, he holds a European certification in data protection from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Before joining Sérvulo, he led the Digital, Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Property areas...
At a time when technology is progressively moving from being a mere tool to assuming increasing autonomy, the We Robot 2026 conference, held in Berlin between April 23 and 25, reaffirmed itself as a stage for interdisciplinary debate on the state of the art of robotics and artificial intelligence. On the legal front, the need was highlighted...
The Administrative Council for Economic Defence justified that Google uses companies that produce journalistic content without prior authorisation.
Do artificial intelligence chatbots cite media outlets when providing news information? The study 'AI News Audit — How AI Models Use and Distribute Canadian Journalism' reveals that, in the vast majority of cases, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok do not do so. In an initial phase, the study promoted by the Centre for Media...
The measure is part of the European Parliament's position regarding negotiations on simplifying rules related to AI.
The proposal comes two months after a controversy regarding the creation of such images by the tool on the social network X.
Authorities in Brussels have opened an investigation into the AI model Grok amid concerns that sexually explicit images were manipulated.
The European Commission announced today an investigation into Grok, the artificial intelligence tool of the social network X, over the dissemination of manipulated sexually explicit images in the European Union (EU), including content that may constitute sexual abuse of minors.
The investigation aims to “assess whether the company adequately evaluated and mitigated the risks associated with the deployment of Grok's features ... in the EU”.
The proliferation of intimate deepfakes on X has raised questions over the bloc’s AI law.
A deepfake tool has sparked investigations and now furious criticism from the head of the European Commission.
