EU packaging rules now have a start date, ChatGPT starts running ads, and Kobunsha posts a final profit despite an operating loss — plus seven more stories | BPJ News (Evening Edition)
Regulation turns spec changes into obligations, ads move into “consultation” screens, and manufacturing doubles up AI to prevent accidents.
The EU has now set a firm start date for PPWR, and packaging updates for exports will move from a “best effort” to a transaction condition. At the same time, the design logic of advertising and AI is shifting. For printing companies, what clients buy is expanding beyond the ink on paper.
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Tighter EU rules, generative AI pushing into ad inventory, and restructuring underway in publishing, retail, and manufacturing. This morning’s items look unrelated, but together they point to the same shift: “operations and conditions” are becoming prerequisites to doing business. Packaging will require proof of compliance, ads will be judged by how the comparison/consideration screen is designed, and AI will be evaluated not as a standalone tool but as part of governanc…
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