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EU and US set to announce joint working on AI safety, standards & R&D

The European Union and the US expect to announce a cooperation on AI Friday at a meeting of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC), according to a The European Union and the US expect to announce a cooperation on AI Friday at a meeting of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council, according to a senior Commission official who was briefing journalists on background ahead of the Confab.

The European Union and the US expect to announce a cooperation on AI Friday at a meeting of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC), according to a senior Commission official who was briefing journalists on background ahead of the Confab. Although the EU-US collaboration appears to be more wide ranging — as it’s slated to cover not just shared safety and standardization goals but aims to align efforts on fostering uptake of AI across a swathe of third countries via joint support for “public good” research. “We see a lot of commonalities [between EU laws like the DMA, aka Digital Markets Act] with the recent antitrust cases that are being launched also in the United States,” said the official, adding: “I think in many of these areas there is no doubt that there is a win-win opportunity.”

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