{"id":1234476,"date":"2025-02-24T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234476"},"modified":"2025-02-24T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T16:42:00","slug":"software-firm-bird-to-leave-europe-due-to-onerous-regulations-in-ai-era-says-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234476","title":{"rendered":"Software Firm Bird To Leave Europe Due To Onerous Regulations in AI Era, Says CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Cloud communications software firm Bird, one of the Netherlands&#8217; most prominent tech startups, plans to move most of its operations out of Europe, its CEO said, citing restrictive regulations and difficulties hiring skilled technology workers. From a report: &#8220;We are mostly leaving Europe as it lacks the environment we need to innovate in an AI-first era of technology,&#8221; CEO Robert Vis told Reuters on Monday. &#8220;We foresee that regulations in Europe will block true innovation in a global economy moving extremely fast to AI,&#8221; he said in a text message response to Reuters queries. Bird&#8217;s operations in future will be mostly split between New York, Singapore and Dubai, he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Software+Firm+Bird+To+Leave+Europe+Due+To+Onerous+Regulations+in+AI+Era%2C+Says+CEO%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F24%2F1639237%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/twitter_icon_large-260.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F24%2F1639237%2Fsoftware-firm-bird-to-leave-europe-due-to-onerous-regulations-in-ai-era-says-ceo%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/facebook_icon_large-175.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/25\/02\/24\/1639237\/software-firm-bird-to-leave-europe-due-to-onerous-regulations-in-ai-era-says-ceo?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=23619285&amp;smallembed=1\" style=\"height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud communications software firm Bird, one of the Netherlands&#8217; most prominent tech startups, plans to move most of its operations out of Europe, its CEO said, citing restrictive regulations and difficulties hiring skilled technology workers. From a report: &#8220;We are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234476\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slashdot","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1234476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1234476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1234476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1234476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}