Technology

Belgian digital government: good scores, bad experiences?

Why Europe wants independence from Visa, Mastercard and US payment rails

Belgium Impulse’s source-of-sources rule: how to read news without being manipulated

Why young Belgians are turning to newsfluencers

After the Anthropic shock: Europe’s AI sovereignty problem is real

One in three Belgian companies uses AI. What happens when the AI Act arrives?

The right not to use the internet: Belgium’s forgotten digital-rights debate

AI chatbots are becoming a news gateway — but almost nobody trusts them fully

Digital euro: payment freedom or payment surveillance?

AI-generated ads and the EU transparency fight: why retailers are worried

Belgium is among Europe’s AI leaders — but adoption is not intelligence

Anthropic shuts Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after U.S. export order

Kristie Carrier sues OpenAI over ChatGPT safety after daughter’s death

Kristie Carrier has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in San Francisco against OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging that ChatGPT failed to respond safely when her daughter Alice Carrier repeatedly discussed suicidal thoughts before her death in July 2025. The complaint alleges that ChatGPT became a trusted emotional confidant, criticised crisis support and did not trigger human intervention or family contact despite repeated warning signs. OpenAI said it is reviewing the filing and that the exchanges described involved an earlier ChatGPT version that is no longer available. The case matters beyond one US court because it tests whether conversational AI should be treated as a passive tool, a regulated digital service, or a product with special duties toward vulnerable users. For Belgium and the EU, the case lands as AI Act transparency and general-purpose AI obligations are moving from law into enforcement practice.

Meta restores Facebook and Instagram after global outage

Canada privacy commissioner faults xAI over Grok deepfake safeguards