European Union regulators continue to highlight the need to rein in artificial intelligence (AI) technology, even after the EU legislature adopted a landmark AI law this spring.
But how should EU institutions move forward as the technology develops?
Finland's ruling National Coalition Party (NCP) opposes stricter regulation of AI, according to Helsingin Sanomat, which reports on candidates' responses in its election compass.
The results of the HS election compass reveal that all parliamentary parties apart from the NCP and Movement Now said they believe that the EU should regulate artificial intelligence more strictly than it does now.
Based on the compass, the Left Alliance took the most critical view of AI. In her response, party chair and EU candidate Li Andersson wrote that AI alters societies, economies as well as social and power dynamics.
NCP candidate Aura Salla, on the other hand, wrote that the EU currently overregulates its digital market. Salla, a current MP, previously worked as a lobbyist in Brussels for Meta, the technology company that owns Facebook and Instagram.
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Lidl's shopping list
Finland's S and K groups are criticising Lidl's price comparison that — unsurprisingly — found the German grocer to have the lowest prices.
The chain commissioned a price comparison in seven cities, where Lidl claims to be the cheapest option in each. It said its shopping basket cost 20 percent less than similar ones at K stores, 13 percent less than S-Market's food trolley and seven percent less than Prisma's basket.
"They have chosen the timing and the products that have been compared, and they certainly haven't picked the cheapest products off the shelves. This is a very subjective result," said Sampo Päällysaho, SVP for Groceries at S-Group, told Iltalehti.
Flax fashion
What did Finns wear a thousand years ago to protect themselves from the elements?
Flax and nettles, according to Hufvudstadsbladet, reporting on research into plant fibres found at burial sites.
People in this part of the world wore garments made of flax, hemp and nettles, said HBL.
At the end of the Iron Age and the beginning of the Middle Ages, people wore clothes made from fibres of local plants such as flax, nettles and wool. Cotton gained popularity only at a much later stage, according to Helsinki University researcher Jenni Suomela, who has developed new methods for identifying plant fibres that often look identical under the microscope.
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