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EU seeks information from more than 30 artificial intelligence companies

From ANSA · () Italian

Translated from Italian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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Newswire Official statement Under investigation
  • The European Commission has requested information from more than 30 AI companies in two areas as it begins enforcing the AI Act.
  • The Commission has not identified the companies because the requests are part of an ongoing dialogue.
  • The Commission said it has recently discussed cybersecurity risks with OpenAI and Anthropic but did not say whether either received a formal request.

The European Commission has opened its first enforcement actions under the AI Act by sending information requests to more than 30 artificial intelligence companies.

Commission spokesman Thomas Regnier said the requests covered two main areas. Brussels will not disclose the names of the companies for now because they are only requests for information and dialogue with all the companies is continuing.

We have sent a series of requests for information, the first as part of the enforcement actions launched by the Commission, to more than 30 AI companies in two main areas.

— Thomas RegnierThe Commission spokesman described the first AI Act enforcement requests.

Regnier was asked specifically about OpenAI and Anthropic and the cybersecurity risks linked to their models. He said the Commission takes those risks extremely seriously and confirmed that work with both companies is continuing.

He said the Commission had held very recent exchanges with OpenAI and Anthropic, including on cybersecurity risks. However, he did not say whether either company was among those that received the formal information requests.

We take cybersecurity risks extremely seriously.

— Thomas RegnierHe addressed questions about risks linked to AI models.
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