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Research Notes: The Regulatory Arbitrage You Can't See

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A Z Mackay
May 28, 2025
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In June 2024, Apple announced it wouldn’t bring Apple Intelligence to Europe, citing regulatory uncertainty. Not compliance costs. Not technical barriers. Uncertainty. Around the same time, Meta paused AI model training on European user data after regulatory pushback. These weren’t startups testing boundaries. These were companies with compliance budget…

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