EU countries are evolving plans to verify ages of internet users and to stop underage users from accessing sites either because of adult content, or when consent is needed. The European Commission plans to institute a digital wallet scheme in 2026 to enable ID’ing, but in the meantime, Spain, Italy, France and Ireland are moving ahead with IDs or other strategies to address the problem.
The new version of Pega’s platform extends its GenAI Coach, an AI-powered copilot, across all Pega applications. Pega also announced new integrations with data warehouses including Snowflake and email monitoring and optimization within the Pega Decision Hub. Pega has added Amazon Bedrock and Vertex AI to OpenAI as sources for its large language model.
A U.S. district court judge has ruled that Google acted to create illegal monopolies in online advertising technology in a way that blocked competition and allowed higher ad prices to be charged. Google will appeal; meantime, the government will decide what to ask the court to do to remedy the monopoly. Google also faces a new U.K. antitrust lawsuit over its dominance of search.