When the Digital Services Act entered into force two years ago, it was framed as a reset for the online economy. The rhetoric focused on safer digital spaces, stronger protections for fundamental rights, and curbing manipulative or harmful platform behavior.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has opened a formal inquiry into X and the Irish entity responsible for the X platform in the EU, over concerns that generative artificial intelligence tools linked to the platform may have been used to create and publish non-consensual intimate images.
The first year of sustainability assurance under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive is now in the books in the Netherlands, and the country’s financial regulator says audit firms have made real strides, but the work is far from over.
For nearly four years, motorists pulling into nine Mobil-branded petrol stations across north and central Queensland were told they were filling up with “Mobil Synergy Fuel”, a product marketed as containing additives designed to protect engines and improve performance. They weren’t. Recently, an Australian Federal Court ordered Mobil Oil Australia to pay $10.4 million (AUD 16 million) in penalties after finding the company had made false or misleading representations about the fuel sold at those sites, in breach of the Australian Consumer Law.
Nearly a decade after Carillion collapsed in one of the UK’s most high-profile corporate failures, the Financial Conduct Authority has formally censured the company for misleading the market in the year before its liquidation and fined its former chief executive for his role in the affair.
Norway’s financial watchdog has laid out a year of active enforcement, expanding surveillance and deeper scrutiny of sustainability reporting in its 2025 supervisory reports. The documents, published this week by Finanstilsynet, provide a detailed account of inspections, market monitoring, licensing matters and regulatory development across the financial sector. They also address broader themes such as anti-money laundering, crypto-asset supervision, European cooperation, digital resilience and risk monitoring in both Norwegian and international markets.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is intensifying its review of Microsoft, broadening its inquiry into the company’s licensing structure, cloud strategy, and integration of artificial intelligence tools, according to a report by Bloomberg News.