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Here's your TMB Tech Minute for Thursday, September 19th.

I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

Meta platforms and other companies have warned the European Union its regulations could cause the

block to miss out on the full benefits of artificial intelligence.

In an open letter coordinated by Meta, executives from more than two dozen companies call on the

EU to harmonize and modernize its rules.

The signatories say Europe has become less competitive and less innovative and risks falling

further behind in the AI era.

The EU's executive body says it's stepping up efforts to support AI innovation

and that the incoming Justice Commissioner is expected to ensure the Block's

data protection law responds to law enforcement and commercial needs.

Disney plans to stop using Slack as a workplace collaboration system following a hack that leaked more than a terabyte of company data.

Disney's CFO said in an internal memo reviewed by the Wall Street Journal that most of its businesses would stop using the tool by the end of this year.

A Disney spokesman didn't immediately provide comment.

A spokesperson for Salesforce, which owned Slack, declined to comment.

The data leaked online this summer included a range of financial and strategy information,

as well as personally identifiable information of some staff and customers. And a report from the Federal Trade Commission says companies including Amazon, Meta, and X lack adequate privacy controls.

The agency found that these businesses aggressively collected the data of users and non-users and monetized it without

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