The door is now wide open for Google and Microsoft to gain first movers' advantage over the entire continent.
Meta is the latest US-based tech giant to pause artificial intelligence releases in the European Union. The company joins Apple, who in June announced that it would be withholding several AI-powered iPhone features from customers in the EU.
Neither company, so far, has given a timeline or described what, exactly, needs to happen for the embargoes to lift, but both companies have cited “regulatory uncertainty” as the catalyst.
In a statement sent exclusively to Axios on July 17, a Meta spokesperson said:
