Over 45 business leaders from the EU AI Champions Initiative have published an open letter to the European Commission calling for a two-year “clock stop” on the AI Act, as the EU considers diluting some aspects of the law set to come into effect in August.
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July 3, 2025
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Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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