Google, Meta execs blast Europe over strict AI regulation

Stockholm – CEOs of American Technology Giants Google and Dead He said that the artificial intelligence industry in Europe is declining with excessive organization, adding to the speech by the Donald Trump administration that strict technology rules in the region suffocate innovation.
Speaking at the Techarna Tech conference in Stockholm, Sweden, the heads of public policy in both Google and Meta used the theater as a platform to express their concerns about the strict approach to the bloc to organize technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.
“I think there is now a wide consensus that the European organization on technology has its problems, and sometimes it is very fragmented, like GDP [General Data Protection Regulation]Sometimes, it goes too far, like the artificial intelligence law. ”Chris Yu, Director of General Policy at Meta, told a fans of technology and investors in Techarna on Thursday.
“But the clear result of all of this is that the products are delayed or abandoned by European citizens and consumers,” he said.
Yiu pulled a pair of recently released Ray-Ban glasses, which use artificial intelligence to translate speech from one language to another or describe images for poor eyesight.
“This is a very deep and human application of technology, and it is slow to reach Europe because of our issues about the organization,” said Yiu.
Meta only started offering the features of the artificial intelligence of its Ray-Ban glasses in some European countries in November, after delaying that the company, which claimed to be caused by the need to comply with the “complex regulatory system” in Europe.
Meta previously expressed concern about its ability to comply with the AI law, a prominent European Union law that creates a legal and regulatory framework for technology, and the “unexpected” implementation was a fundamental issue.
The company also said that the gross domestic product – the framework of the European Union’s data privacy presented in 2018 – its glasses were launched in the European Union countries due to the surrounding problems using Instagram and Facebook user data to train AI.
Dorothy Zhu, head of general policy at Google DeepMind, said that the main problem in Europe’s approach to organizing artificial intelligence technology is that the artificial intelligence law was invented before Chatgpt came out.
The artificial intelligence law was presented for the first time by the European Commission, the European Union Executive Authority, in April 2021. Openai Chatgpt was launched in November 2022.
“There is a way to use a policy to create a better investment environment when this is done in a way that enhances business,” Zhou said, referring to the law to reduce inflation in the United States as an example of a policy that led to benefits, such as subsidies for electric cars.
“I think it is difficult when it is organized on a time scale that does not match technology,” Zhu added. “I think what we have to do is organize both to ensure that there is a responsible technology application, also ensuring that the industry is threatening in every correct way.”
Big technology lights the bet
In general, large technology companies have increased their speech against the European Union’s approach to technology organizing Intensify pressure efforts In an attempt to alleviate aspects of the artificial intelligence law.
Kent Walker, President of Google for Global Affairs, told Politico last month that the European Union blog for artificial intelligence models (GPAI) for general purposes-which indicates systems such as the GPT family in Openai from large language models, or LLMS-was “step” the wrong direction . “
The European Union’s Office, a newly created form, has published a newly created form of artificial intelligence law
Earlier this month, Joel Kaplan, the newly designated global affairs employee, suggested in an interview broadcast at an event in Brussels that the technology giant would not participate in the code in its current form.
He said that the rules go beyond the “requirements” of the artificial intelligence law and the imposition of “non -implemented and implemented requirements.”

Technology appeals working in the technology field in the European Union are the most softening by the new administration of President Donald Trump.
At the International Labor Summit in Paris last week, US Vice President JD Vance criticized Europe because it focuses heavily on artificial intelligence organization rather than adopting technology growth capabilities.
Coordination of European Union rules for startups
Big Tech was not alone in calling for a simpler regulatory system for technology companies operating in Europe.
Many capital owners also encouraged investment in emerging companies in the field of European technology also the burdens of complex organizational compliance with their governor companies.
While the United States was paying initiatives forward like Stargate Stargate Investment Project $ 500 This strikes a “optimistic” message about artificial intelligence, “Europe’s novel tends to be more dramatic.
The region needs to start thinking “behind GDP, along with the European Union Law” and the production of technological success stories to make people “excited” about the promise of technology.
Lightspeed are AI Unicorn Mistral, which is often described as a major competitor in Europe for Openai.
Last year, technological entrepreneurs in the region proposed a new initiative to address the fragmented market regulations across the 27 -member block by Create the so -called “System 28”. These proposed legal frameworks within the European Union provide companies with an alternative to the national rules of member states, rather than replacing them.
For example, there is a European company law under the twenty -eighth system that makes it easy to establish limited liability companies in the European Union.
One of the founders of the starters of startups looking to create a new entity under the twenty -eighth system, called “Eu Inc.”
“Europe is a place, and what you want to do is [to] “Be able to employ in any country,” said Luke Babas, a NEA partner in London, told CNBC in an interview on the sidelines of Techarna.
There is a major problem in attracting talents in this way, according to Papas, is that “the process of giving shares across the border in Europe is not very easy.”
“If we can unite the shares, for example, this will greatly help,” he added.
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2025-02-21 10:42:00