Regulating the tech sector in the AI era
Marketplace Tech

Regulating the tech sector in the AI era

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 15, 20268 min
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Europe may have weeks of paid vacation, quaint walkable cities and incredible, affordable local wines. But there's something the continent lacks (besides ice cubes and AC): shiny, new Big Tech products. Take Apple's revamped Siri, Meta's Muse or OpenAI's competing AI assistant dots. They've all launched in the U.S., and in some cases other markets. But largely, not in the EU, which has a network of tech regulations targeting data protection, interoperability and AI. Max von Thun, director of the antitrust think tank Open Markets Institute Europe, explains more on this. <...

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Hi, I'm Molly Graham, host of Work Life, a podcast from TED. The most important lessons about work usually aren't the ones anyone teaches you. They come from experience, from uncertainty, from figuring things out as you go. On this show, my expert guests and I explore how careers really unfold through change,

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The hot new AI thing, but not for Europe. From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carino. Europe may have weeks of paid vacation, quaint walkable cities,

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