EU to limit access to social media before age of 15

The item’s headline says the EU will limit access to social media before age 15, placing the bloc at the center of age-based platform regulation for minors. The excerpt does not add implementation specifics, such as how access would be enforced or which platforms would be covered.

Separately, the excerpt highlights related EU tech-policy stories dated September 9–11. On September 11, the EU tech commissioner backed global AI rules in the wake of an extinction warning from researchers, saying global rules are really needed after the alarm over AI risks. On September 10, coverage described the EU’s response to AI extinction warnings, framing Brussels as seeing the panic set off in Silicon Valley as vindication that its own AI regulation is on the right path.

On September 9, the excerpt notes an EU push to transform procurement into a €600B driver of industry: a streamlined rulebook would give clearer guidelines to public authorities and weight quality more heavily against cost.