Meta refuses to sign EUs AI code of practice | TechCrunch

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- Meta has refused to sign the European Union’s code of practice for its AI Act.
- “Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI,” wrote Meta's chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan in a post on LinkedIn.
- Kaplan claimed that the law will “throttle the development and deployment of frontier AI models in Europe and will stunt European companies looking to build businesses on top of them” The EU published guidelines for providers of AI models ahead of rules that will go into effect on August 2.
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