Meta said on Friday that it won't sign the European Union's new AI code of practice. The guidelines provide a framework for the EU's AI Act, which regulates companies operating in the European Union.

Microsoft will likely sign the European Union's code of practice to help companies comply with the bloc's landmark artificial intelligence rules, its president told Reuters on Friday, while Meta Platforms rebuffed the guidelines.

Meta Platforms Inc. today declined to implement a set of guidelines that the European Union has proposed for the artificial intelligence sector. The guidelines are outlined in a document called the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice,