The EU AI Act negotiations ended. One contentious issue was the regulation of foundation models, particularly open source ones. Kudos to the French, German, and Italian governments for not giving up on open source models. Juicy part: "The legislation ultimately included restrictions for foundation models but gave broad exemptions to “open-source models,” which are developed using code that’s freely available for developers to alter for their own products and tools. The move could benefit open-source AI companies in Europe that lobbied against the law, including France’s Mistral and Germany’s Aleph Alpha, as well as Meta, which released the open-source model LLaMA." washingtonpost.com/technolog…