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EU Product Liability Directive

European Union directive imposing no-fault liability for defective products; its revised version brings standalone software, operating systems and AI systems inside the definition of a product.

Known aliases

PLD
revised product liability rules

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Current clusters

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Europe's strict product liability reaches standalone software on 9 December

David Sacks told Anthropic and OpenAI to pace the frontier without an antitrust waiver or an approval regime, and said product liability already disciplines them. Europe will run both regimes on the same models.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

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