{"id":2040,"date":"2025-07-04T21:45:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/top-european-companies-urge-european-commission-to-halt-ai-act\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T21:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:45:04","slug":"top-european-companies-urge-european-commission-to-halt-ai-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/top-european-companies-urge-european-commission-to-halt-ai-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Top European companies urge European Commission to halt AI Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nearly 50 European enterprises called on the European Commission on Thursday to halt an artificial intelligence (AI) act, warning that unclear and overlapping regulations are threatening the EU&rsquo;s competitiveness in the global AI race, the Financial Times has reported.<\/p>\n<p>In an open letter, heads of 44 large European companies urged European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to introduce a two-year pause, and called on the authorities to adopt a more &ldquo;innovation-friendly&rdquo; regulatory approach.<\/p>\n<p>The letter from CEOs was organized by the EU AI Champions Initiative, a body representing 110 companies across the continent&rsquo;s industries, with signatory companies including Airbus, ASML, Mercedes-Benz, and numerous other local European AI companies.<\/p>\n<p>The letter said that the EU&rsquo;s complex rules put &ldquo;Europe&rsquo;s AI ambitions at risk, as it jeopardizes not only the development of European champions, but also the ability of all industries to deploy AI at the scale required by global competition.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The act entered into force in August of last year, marking the world&rsquo;s first comprehensive regulation on AI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Top European companies urge European Commission to halt AI Act<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 50 European enterprises called on the European Commission on Thursday to halt an artificial intelligence (AI) act, warning that unclear and overlapping regulations are threatening the EU&rsquo;s competitiveness in the global AI race, the Financial Times has reported. In an open letter, heads of 44 large European companies urged European Commission President Ursula von&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/top-european-companies-urge-european-commission-to-halt-ai-act\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Top European companies urge European Commission to halt AI Act&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}