Europe's AI crackdown looks doomed to be felled by Silicon Valley lobbying power

- The EU's AI proposals, aimed at regulating artificial intelligence based on its capacity to cause harm, are facing internal disagreement and potential watering down of regulations.

- The proposed legislation focuses on regulating "foundation" AI models that are trained on massive datasets. These models, known as general-purpose AI (GPAI) systems, are capable of a range of tasks and are expensive to build.

- There are only about 20 firms globally that can afford to develop these GPAI systems, and …

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