{"id":65288,"date":"2025-10-07T17:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/65288\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T17:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:02:10","slug":"dutch-chips-star-exec-slams-eu-for-overregulating-ai-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/65288\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch chips star exec slams EU for overregulating AI \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comments \u2014 made during a campaign event for Dutch center-right party Christian Democratic Appeal ahead of national elections Oct. 29 \u2014 are another shot across the bow of the EU&#8217;s embattled <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/bills\/622069\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">artificial intelligence law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ASML, Europe\u2019s leading tech company by market cap, has been campaigning to pause the parts of the law that are not yet implemented. In July, the company\u2019s executives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/top-european-ceos-plead-for-pause-in-ai-act\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed<\/a> onto a letter from 46 companies calling for a two-year pause.<\/p>\n<p>The company in September became the largest shareholder of French AI company Mistral with a \u20ac1.3 billion investment, strengthening the influence of ASML when it comes to the EU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/asml-tech-mistral-open-ai-france-calara-chappaz-digital-affairs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">handling of AI companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dassen also complained about the lack of protection that Europe&#8217;s most prominent companies are receiving amid ongoing geopolitical turbulence. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should ask the Airbuses, the Nokias, the ASMLs &#8230; whether they feel protected by Europe at all times in this huge struggle of power that takes place between the United States and China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe answer won&#8217;t always be yes,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The comments \u2014 made during a campaign event for Dutch center-right party Christian Democratic Appeal ahead of national&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,8840,114,8847,4644,61,975,60,123,1884,80,5155,115],"class_list":["post-65288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-capital-markets-union","tag-china","tag-companies","tag-elections","tag-ie","tag-investment","tag-ireland","tag-markets","tag-startups","tag-technology","tag-the-netherlands","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}