{"id":107052,"date":"2025-10-07T17:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/107052\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T17:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:21:15","slug":"dutch-chips-star-exec-slams-eu-for-overregulating-ai-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/107052\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch chips star exec slams EU for overregulating AI \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comments \u2014 made during a campaign event for Dutch center-right party Christian Democratic Appeal ahead of national elections Oct. 29 \u2014 are another shot across the bow of the EU&#8217;s embattled <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/bills\/622069\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">artificial intelligence law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ASML, Europe\u2019s leading tech company by market cap, has been campaigning to pause the parts of the law that are not yet implemented. In July, the company\u2019s executives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/top-european-ceos-plead-for-pause-in-ai-act\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed<\/a> onto a letter from 46 companies calling for a two-year pause.<\/p>\n<p>The company in September became the largest shareholder of French AI company Mistral with a \u20ac1.3 billion investment, strengthening the influence of ASML when it comes to the EU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/asml-tech-mistral-open-ai-france-calara-chappaz-digital-affairs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">handling of AI companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dassen also complained about the lack of protection that Europe&#8217;s most prominent companies are receiving amid ongoing geopolitical turbulence. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should ask the Airbuses, the Nokias, the ASMLs &#8230; whether they feel protected by Europe at all times in this huge struggle of power that takes place between the United States and China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe answer won&#8217;t always be yes,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The comments \u2014 made during a campaign event for Dutch center-right party Christian Democratic Appeal ahead of national&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,14445,381,6930,18,11903,19,2003,17,188,238,82,6935,384],"class_list":{"0":"post-107052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-capital-markets-union","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-companies","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-elections","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-investment","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-markets","20":"tag-startups","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-the-netherlands","23":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}