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Tree branches to fleece jackets: Chemicals plant in Germany bets on biomass
Tree branches to fleece jackets: Chemicals plant in Germany bets on biomass

Staring at a pile of freshly cut beechwood, forestry manager Johannes Brodowski wonders if he is looking at the future of Germany's chemicals industry. Germany's traditional chemicals industry has been battered by high energy prices and cheap competition from Asia, with national output now at its lowest level since 1995.

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Shein faces 150-mn-euro fine in France
Shein faces 150-mn-euro fine in France
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E-commerce giant Shein faces a possible 150-million-euro ($175-million) fine in France for failing to properly get consent to track users on the internet. It also found during a 2023 inspection that when users refused the tracking cookies Shein continued to read information from them.

EU opens new probe into TikTok data transfer to China
EU opens new probe into TikTok data transfer to China
by  AFP

An Irish regulator helping police European Union data privacy said Thursday it had launched an investigation into TikTok over the transfer of European users' personal data to servers in China. The DPC on Thursday said it had been informed by TikTok in April that "limited EEA user data had in fact been stored on servers in China," contrary to evidence presented by the company.

Italy probes UK online bank Revolut for 'misleading' clients
Italy probes UK online bank Revolut for 'misleading' clients
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Italy's competition watchdog said Thursday it had opened an investigation into UK online bank Revolut over "misleading" messages to customers about its investment services. The Competition and Market Authority (ACGM) also alleged that the bank employed "aggressive ways" of handling banking services.

EU unveils recommendations to rein in powerful AI models
EU unveils recommendations to rein in powerful AI models
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The EU unveiled on Thursday long-delayed recommendations to rein in the most advanced AI models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and help companies comply with the bloc's sweeping new law. Under the law, developers of such models must give details about what content they used -- like text or images -- to train their systems and comply with EU copyright law.

Mexico barred from sending cattle to US over flesh-eating pest
Mexico barred from sending cattle to US over flesh-eating pest
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The US Secretary of Agriculture has announced ports will be closed to the livestock trade at the southern border after Mexican cattle tested positive for the flesh-eating New World screwworm (NWS). "We must see additional progress combatting NWS in Veracruz and other nearby Mexican states in order to reopen livestock ports along the Southern border," the official said.