Apple rejects EU’s Artificial Intelligence Pact

The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Pact lists non-binding commitments that presage some of the binding rules that firms will face under the bloc’s AI Act in coming years, but it got off to a rocky start on Wednesday as Apple and Meta Platforms rejected the pact.

Pieter Haeck and Mathieu Pollet for Politico:
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It was initiated by former EU digital commissioner Thierry Breton, who stepped down from his role earlier this month after clashing with his boss, President Ursula von der Leyen.

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MacDailyNews Take: In July, Breton, who’ll never be mistaken for a genius, publicly warned Elon Musk to respect the E.U.’s censorship laws during a then-pending interview with U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump. A coalition of civil libertarians promptly called out the authoritarian-wannabe Breton for his blatant disregard for freedom of speech. Musk responded to Breton with a meme from the film Tropic Thunder: “Take a big step back and literally, fuck your own face!”