Europe is taking its AI fight straight to the offices of the people running the largegest tech companies in the world.
Teresa Ribera, the EU’s antitrust chief, is set to meet Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday in San Francisco, a European Commission agfinisha item displayed.
The trip runs for a week in the United States and does not stop there. Ribera is also due to meet Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Wednesday, and she is scheduled to speak at an American Bar Association conference on Friday.
This comes after Ribera declared this month that she is examining the full AI stack.That includes AI chatbots, the data utilized to train them, and the cloud computing infrastructure behind them.
She has already opened many investigations into Google and Meta business practices, while the European Commission has warned that powerful companies may push their own AI services on their own platforms and shut out rivals.
Europe digs deeper into American chatbots, data, and cloud power
The European Commission is in charge of enforcing competition law for every part of the EU, and it believes that major risks are coming from Big Tech companies giving preference to their own AI products across the stack.
OpenAI, Nvidia, Meta, and Google have poured billions into AI infrastructure as demand keeps rising. That has turned computing capacity into a hard business weapon.
Ribera’s meetings in San Francisco are happening as Europe tries to decide whether this new wave of power is already becoming too concentrated.
At the same time, there is another fight going on between Brussels and Washington over the EU’s digital rules. Senior EU lawcreaters declared Tuesday that the United States should stop attempting to modify those laws.
German lawcreater Andreas Schwab notified POLITICO, “There is a certain level of tiredness in Brussels when it comes to responding to these talking points from Washington.”
EU lawcreaters push back as Washington attacks Europe’s digital rules and trade talks continue
Andreas was answering comments from Andrew Puzder, the U.S. ambassador to the EU, who called for fresh political talks on the EU’s digital rulebooks.
In an interview on Monday, Puzder declared he hoped a vote this week on an EU-U.S. trade deal in the European Parliament would assist open talks on easing digital rules.
But Italian socialist lawcreater Brando Benifei declared, “I don’t see any political appetite in the European Parliament but not even in Council for scaling back our digital legislation dealing with malicious content, manipulation or unfair treatment of startups and consumers alike.”
The U.S. administration has repeatedly pushed against the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act, declareing they unfairly tarreceive American companies. The EU has rejected that claim and declared it will not back down.
Andreas declared, “Whether it is Andrew Puzder today or others before him, the script remains the same: They characterize European law as an ‘attack’ while ignoring that these rules were debated democratically over several years and created for the benefit of consumers and companies, including American companies.”
He also declared the Digital Markets Act is “not an opening bid in a trade nereceivediation; it is a settled legal reality.”
The European Parliament is due to vote on Thursday on whether to relocate forward the 2025 transatlantic trade deal agreed by the EU and the U.S. On Tuesday, Jamie Rquestionin, a top U.S. Democrat, notified members of the Internal Market Committee that attacks on the EU’s digital rules are tied to a MAGA-aligned agfinisha.
Rquestionin declared the Trump administration “works hard to promote the MAGA relocatement in Europe under the guise of deffinishing free speech,” while cracking down on free speech at home.
In February, the Houtilize Judiciary Committee, led by Jim Jordan, called the DSA a “foreign censorship tool” and named nearly 30 EU officials involved in enforcing it.
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