Google/Microsoft/Github lobbying the EU to allow them to be exempt from new AI law

[The Gays From LA]

“What really set things off was observing the significant level of lobbying coming from industry players—like the Business Software Association, Google, and Microsoft’s GitHub—to seek exemption under the EU AI Act,” the authors said. “This was curious, given that these were the same companies that would, according to much of the rhetoric espousing ‘open’ AI’s benefits, be ‘disrupted’ were ‘open’ AI to proliferate.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ugly-truth-open-models-championed-171021186.html