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The EU AI Act is revolutionary, but how should we interpret it?
On March 14, the AI Regulation – known as the AI Act - was adopted by the European Parliament and will soon come into effect. With the AI Act, the EU has a scoop: the first legislation to regulate the development and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This framing of the adoption of AI comes am... Read more
AI Act: Europe is blind to the law’s innovation problems
For Europe, the AI Act is all about gaining trust. Companies and residents of the EU must be assured that available AI tools do not pose a risk to privacy, for example. The EU says it has perfectly reconciled this goal with the ability to innovate. This can be seen in the milder rules that st... Read more
LLM for Europe: Mistral AI puts Europe on the AI map
A French AI start-up signed partnerships with AWS and Microsoft this week. Will Europe have its own OpenAI? Primarily, Microsoft's interest in this start-up is important to answer that question. After all, this company before worked exclusively with OpenAI.
Mistral AI was already praised by Eur... Read more
European member states approve AI Act
The AI Act has received the approval of the various European Union member states. For the AI Act it was in particular important to get the approval of Germany, France and Italy. The Act is now in the final line to final finalization and implementation.
France, Germany and Italy previously threw... Read more
‘European AI start-ups need guidance on how to use supercomputers’
The European plan to give AI start-ups access to supercomputers first appears to face another challenge. It appears the start-ups lack the knowledge to harness the capabilities of a supercomputer.
In September, Europe launched the initiative to make supercomputers accessible for AI start-ups fr... Read more
EU lets AI developers determine whether to comply with strictest AI Act rules
General-purpose AI (GPAI) will have transparency policies imposed within the AI Act. Systems that hold a higher risk will have additional rules imposed on them. It is, however, completely unclear for whom those rules are intended.
The content of the EU AI Act still has to clarify many details. ... Read more
AI Act: OpenAI and Google may not violate copyrights
The contents of the AI Act were officially agreed upon last week. The agreement should clarify more concretely what types of AI are allowed within the EU and in which way. There will be obligations, which are not yet detailed, although it is clear that AI developers such as Google and OpenAI may no... Read more
AI Act: transparency requirements for ChatGPT remain general
Negotiations on the European AI Act would have produced an agreement on the required level of transparency that AI developers must provide in their models. Regarding the use of facial recognition and access to source code, discussions should come to an end today in an additional meeting.
On Wed... Read more
Europe divided: what will remain of the AI Act?
Events in the AI world always give Europe the opportunity to mention the EU AI Act once again. The act is often used in the same sentence with "leading agreement" and seems to be a solution to the problems and challenges facing the AI world today. But what will be left of the legislation as critic... Read more
Three EU economic powers do not want strict AI legislation
The three largest economic powers within the European Union have agreed on how AI should be regulated. The vision is less strict than the initial versions of the upcoming EU AI Act, which is a clear signal from the three countries to the EU.
France, Germany and Italy have aligned visions for up... Read more