I have said this many times in many fora but it merits repeating, given how sticky the narrative about digital #regulation v #innovation is. In today's Financial Times: "Big Tech has successfully injected a narrative in Brussels that the two goals — regulating while innovating and adopting AI — are contradictory. But that does not necessarily have to be the case [...] The discussion about the AI Act is a “sideshow” to the main challenges facing European competitiveness, she says, which include its fragmented single market, attracting the right talent and finding the necessary funding for innovation." “We are not going to be an AI power just by scrapping the AI Act,” Bradford says. “There are more fundamental battles that we need to be fighting for, pushing those other reforms forward instead of just arguing over how much we’re scaling back legislation.” Unverified source (2025)