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EU AI Act Enforcement Postponed: Corporate CIOs Underprepared, Reliance on Frontier Models Loosening

The enforcement of the EU AI Act has been postponed to 2027, but companies are severely underprepared. At the same time, companies are gradually moving away from reliance on cutting-edge large models and shifting to more cost-effective models. This article analyzes the impact of this trend on the business models of the digital economy, platform competition, and the regulatory landscape.

Marcus Vance6 min read
Platforms And Apps

EU strikes hard: Meta's 'addictive design' faces huge fines, digital platform business model under pressure

The European Commission preliminarily determined that Meta's auto-play, infinite scroll, and highly personalized recommendation features are addictive, violating the Digital Services Act. Meta may face fines of up to 6% of global annual revenue and will need to redesign the core user experience. This move is not just a regulatory action but signals a fundamental shift in the business model of digital platforms based on attention extraction.

Sophia Rossi4 min read
Platforms And Apps

High-end Transformation of Retail Trading Platforms: Compliance Gap and Regulatory Challenges under the Digital Economy

As retail trading platforms like Robinhood and eToro roll out private banking and premium card services for high-net-worth clients, their compliance frameworks have failed to keep pace, exposing systemic risks amid increasingly stringent regulatory environments in Singapore and Hong Kong. This trend concerns not only individual wealth management but also reflects a deeper structural contradiction in the digital economy as platforms shift from low-end expansion to high-end penetration: How can data-driven business models adapt to complex source-of-funds verification? How can regulation balance innovation with security? This article provides an in-depth analysis of the business logic and regulatory changes behind the compliance gap, offering decision-making insights for the upscale trajectory of digital financial platforms.

Elena van den Berg7 min read
Platforms And Apps

Retail enters the "control economy": growth accelerates concentration in digital channels.

According to the latest report from Euromonitor International, global retail growth in 2025 will be only 2%, but e-commerce will contribute approximately 80% of that growth. The focus of competition has shifted from expansion to control over pricing, visibility, and consumer decision-making. AI-driven recommendation traffic has surged by 304%, and the power dynamics of the platform ecosystem are being reshaped.

Sophia Rossi5 min read
Platforms And Apps

AI is pushing tax compliance into a new stage of “platformization” and automation

Based on Thomson Reuters’ analysis of AI tax compliance strategies, this article discusses from the perspective of the digital economy how generative AI is changing tax research, compliance processes, professional services business models, and regulatory logic, and explains why “trustworthy AI” is becoming a new threshold for competition among platforms in high-risk industries.

Marcus Vance8 min read