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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants frontier AI development slowed, and said on Wednesday that she will invite the leading AI labs to discuss how the EU can support their own efforts to do that. In her State of the Union address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, she also committed the EU to joint work with Canada, the U.K. and other partners on evaluating and verifying advanced models, early warning and AI …