Europe adopts its first major Artificial Intelligence Act:

Companies will not be allowed to identify faces, intelligence services will not be allowed to predict crimes with AI, companies will have to mark all AI-generated content, their AI Models will have to be verified for legal sources, and finally, for each big AI case companies will have to provide documents to prove safety for health and the environment, democracy and human rights.

One more thing Bloomberg noticed: AI will not be allowed to screen CVs (resumes) of candidates.

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At least someone is doing great: #Roblox shared some of their stats:

- DAU (Daily Active Users): 79.5 million, of which 46.4 million (58.4%) are over 13 years old, 32.4 million (40.8%) are 13 or younger, and for 0.7 million, the age couldn't be determined.
- Audience growth: Over the year, the DAU for the 13+ audience grew by 10 million, and the 13 or younger audience grew by 4.2 million.
- Interestingly, until about 2023, Roblox provided a more detailed age breakdown, not just for those 13 years old.

Why is the age "13 years" important?
The age threshold of "13 years" is taken from the COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) in the USA, which restricts the collection of personal information from children under 13 without parental consent. Approximately a quarter of Roblox's audience is in the USA, making compliance with this law critically important. In 2022, Epic Games paid a fine of $275 million for violating this law.

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The best drama of the week: modders are suing Mojang because their new rules against firearms are causing them financial loss, but they are also illegal and inconsistent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5RvoPQZQeM

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It's official: Type-C is now the only allowed charger for portable devices in the EU. Even Apple gave up and now making its phones with USB.

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The UK government tries to give away all creative work from UK-based entities to AI training by re-writing copywrite laws with what they called a "balanced update":

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/uks-ai-copyright-proposals-would-irreparably-harm-ed-newton-rex-w0vhc/

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TikTok is banned in the US. But since the country doesn't have an efficient targeted system, they also accidentally blocked Marvel Snap and some other stuff along the way.

With all my personal negative feelings towards TikTok as a brain rot platform, it was extremely efficient for indie games marketing. And it seems that Trump is planning to restore it later on.

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Mmm, democracy intensifies!

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Meanwhile, The US government explained their vision of AI and Copyright:

They believe that certain Prompts (that do work well and were created with a reason and within specified environment) can be a matter of copyright.

But they are mostly aiming to make EDITED generated content supported for the copyright procedure. Unedited stuff will not work.

https://copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf

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EU fines EU for breaching EU data protection law

The European Union is fining itself for breaches of its data regulation legislation after it transferred personal data to the US. The German citizen logged into state-owned website via Facebook which eventually violated his personal data storage procedures.

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Yeah, Copywrite laws sux, never use what you don't own as commercial projects (and probably free ones too), and always do your homework on all the assets, names, and terms:

Even for a small indie game you should hold a spreadsheet of all works, their respective creators and owners, and so on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSncDVr-J7A

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The European Union is banning the use of virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases.

In addition, banners and ADs can no longer target children and use limited time practices. No more fear of missing out. This change may significantly affect the revenue of Fortnite and Roblox.

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Google is on fire: the US agreed that it's a monopoly and approved the initial request from the government to force it to sell Chrome and split the business.

Company's lawyers called it just a wishlist of their competitors.

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A bit more on the new European Law, requiring clear pricing in mobile games (and games in general).

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Stop killing games petition is now 70% full: go support it, if you are a resident of Europe!

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
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