SAP CEO urges Europe to unite and ease AI rules to stay competitive

Europe needs a more unified market and lighter-touch regulation to stay competitive in artificial intelligence as the U.S. and China accelerate investment and deployment, SAP CEO Christian Klein said on Thursday.

Speaking at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York, Klein said Europe is “more important than ever” in a fast-changing geopolitical environment but “stands in its own way … regulating where nothing has to be regulated.”