across the region. they re venting their anger over soaring fuel and fertilizer costs, low prices for their produce, and increasingly restrictive eu regulations. demonstrations by farmers are planned in poland, hungary and italy today. italy s government has promised tax breaks to ease hardship for farmers after hundreds began gathering with their tractors this week, on motorways outside rome and turin. this was the scene on thursday. and in cyprus, farmers blocked the entrance to the european union s offices in nicosia, on thursday. there were also demonstrations in bulgaria. and more tractor protests across spain for the third day in a row, with farmers disrupting traffic in barcelona, and in smaller cities all over the country. they say eu rules to protect the environment make them less competitive. they have also had to compete with imports from ukraine after brussels waived duties and quotas after the russian invasion. this and renewed eu talks on a south america trade d
the eu has moved closer to passing one of the world s first loss to control artificial intelligence. eu lawmakers agreed on wednesday to changes in draught artificial intelligence rules proposed by the european commission in a bid to set a global standard for a technology used everything from automated factories to self driving cars to chatbots. let s get more in this and speak to the independent tech analyst stephanie here, he will speak to me now. what is this legislation trying to lay down for al developers? it is massive. i ai developers? it is massive. i don t think we can underestimate the importance of this legislation, which was just the first step, they have a few more to go. we would expect this to pass by the end of the year, so there ai developers you have mentioned by plenty of time to get up to speed. what do they need to get up to speed with? that is the devil any detail as always. the really big one will be about the police use of things like real time biometr
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