{"id":691869,"date":"2026-01-12T21:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691869\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T21:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:24:15","slug":"fix-grok-or-else-eu-tech-chief-tells-elon-musks-x-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691869\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix Grok or else, EU tech chief tells Elon Musk\u2019s X \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;X now has to fix its AI tool in the EU, and they have to do it quickly,&#8221; she said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HennaVirkkunen\/status\/2010802271144292571?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> on the platform. <\/p>\n<p>If that doesn&#8217;t happen, the European Commission is ready to strike under the the <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/bills\/609148\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Services Act<\/a>, its law governing digital platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not hesitate to put the DSA to its full use to protect EU citizens.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Under the DSA, platforms like X must address systemic risks, including those related to the spread of illegal content, or face fines of up to 6 per cent of their global annual turnover.<\/p>\n<p>Last month the European Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-slaps-e120m-fine-on-x-straining-ties-with-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">imposed<\/a> a \u20ac120 million fine on X for minor transparency infringements, drawing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/05\/an-attack-on-all-american-tech-platforms-trump-admin-decries-eus-fine-on-musks-x-00678891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">howls of outrage from the Trump administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission ordered X last week to retain all documents and data related to Grok until the end of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;X now has to fix its AI tool in the EU, and they have to do it quickly,&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2814,3677,21469,295,2000,299,5187,6849,69105,7965,1199,11587],"class_list":{"0":"post-691869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-data","9":"tag-digital","10":"tag-digital-services-act","11":"tag-elon-musk","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-henna-virkkunen","16":"tag-illegal-content","17":"tag-platforms","18":"tag-services","19":"tag-transparency"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115884239344669904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}