The European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act continues to evolve with significant regulatory updates that reshape compliance timelines and clarify key obligations. Recent developments include the Digital Omnibus on AI, which extends implementation deadlines for high-risk systems and introduces new prohibitions on harmful AI applications, alongside comprehensive guidance from the European Commission on classification criteria, transparency requirements, and general-purpose AI model obligations.

The European General Court has upheld the Commission's prohibition of Booking Holdings' acquisition of Etraveli Group, endorsing a novel 'reverse leveraging' theory of harm in platform mergers. This landmark judgment establishes that a dominant platform can be blocked from acquiring a business in an adjacent market even when the transaction produces only a marginal market share increase, if it serves to entrench an already weak competitive environment and make it harder for rivals to challenge the incumbent