Europe frets over American AI as the tech world descends on France
The timing was almost too neat. Days before more than 180,000 people were due to file into VivaTech in Paris, and before G7 leaders sat down at the lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains, the United States tightened access to Anthropic’s most advanced models for foreign nationals.
Europe arrived at its own party having just been reminded, again, that the tools its companies depend on can be switched off by a decision taken in Washington.
Technological sovereignty was always going to dominate both gatherings. It now dominates them with an edge. Policymakers and executives spent the run-up fretting, in the careful phrasing of the week, about American AI and the scarcity of credible European alternatives.
The fretting is not new, but what is new is the demonstration that the dependency is not theoretical. When the US ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from its top systems, the company found the restriction impractical...
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