By Supantha Mukherjee and Foo Yun Chee

STOCKHOLM/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Europe is set to streamline its AI and privacy laws on Wednesday to simplify the EU’s tougher rules in a move critics say will appease Big Tech and U.S. President Donald Trump.

The European Commission’s plans include allowing tech firms to use personal data to train AI models based on legitimate interest without asking for consent, and delaying rules for high-risk AI systems by a year, a draft seen by Reuters shows.

EU antitrust chief Henna Virkkunen is due to present a ‘Digital Omnibus’ to cut red tape and overlapping laws such as the GDPR, the AI Act, the e-Privacy Directive and the Data Act.

Over the last decade, the European Union has introduced ambitious digital laws ranging from the General Data Protection Regul

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