AMSTERDAM, May 5 (Reuters) – Europe’s AI regulations should be reduced and simplified, chief executives of \u200cseven of Europe’s top technology firms including \u200cChristophe Fouquet of the biggest, computer chip equipment maker ASML, \u200bsaid in an opinion piece published on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The European Union resumes talks this month on streamlining the bloc’s 2024 AI Act, with the European Commission, \u200cthe bloc’s executive arm, \u2060also due to present its “Tech Sovereignty Package” on May 27 — including plans still \u2060under negotiation to support the computer chip industry and AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n
“More than three years after the ‘ChatGPT moment’, \u200bEurope \u200bis still debating regulation, \u200bwhile others have long \u200cshifted focus to scaling AI in physical systems and robotics,” the executives wrote in the op-ed.<\/p>\n
The commentary, published in newspapers including Germany’s Handelsblatt and Italy’s Corriere della Sera, also called for stronger industrial \u200cpolicy, and M&A rules that \u200bwould allow European companies to \u200bgrow.<\/p>\n
“We face fragmented \u200bmarkets and subsidized rivals with very \u200cstrong market penetration in the \u200bEU,” the executives \u200bwrote.<\/p>\n
It was signed by the CEOs of ASML, Airbus , Ericsson, Mistral AI, Nokia,, SAP AG \u200band Siemens, \u200cand followed a meeting with European Commission President \u200bUrsula von der Leyen.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Toby Sterling, \u200bEditing by William Maclean)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMSTERDAM, May 5 (Reuters) – Europe’s AI regulations should be reduced and simplified, chief executives of \u200cseven of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1925,21737,21738,4,256,6242,40,21739],"class_list":{"0":"post-32407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-europe","8":"tag-asml","9":"tag-chief-executives","10":"tag-christophe-fouquet","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european-commission","13":"tag-european-companies","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-technology-firms"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}