So you are arguing the EU economy is in a good shape??
EU share of global GDP (1980- 2025) below before we even get to the 'AI surge.' And yes, sovereignty is based on economic prosperity and security. Both are downstream of AI and advanced technology. The failure to invest in
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EU Economic Decline and AI Technology Investment Gap
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EU Regulatory Burden Threatens Tech Investment and Economic Sovereignty
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So we are in radical agreement. The EU creates a massive regulatory burden and the MS refuse to divert funds away from agricultural subsidies towards compute or defence, and then they wonder why their economies and sovereignty are declining. Seems like Mensch's observation was
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Mistral CEO on EU AI priorities divergence and regulatory power
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First, that’s a direct quote from Arthur Mensch, the CEO of Mistral. It’s not about causality, it’s an observation of divergent priorities. Calling him or me a "clueless tech bro or sis" is just a bad faith argument. Second, it’s not like the EU is powerless despite the lack of
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Intelligence-per-watt: New Productivity Measure
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And 'Intelligence-per-watt ' is the new measure of productivity.
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EU AI Regulation and Investment Gap: Strategic Challenge
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Never said low investment comes from regulation. I said that US vs EU CapEx is orders of magnitude apart, and that the EU regulates (on AI, it does it badly.) These are two separate but related points that put the EU in a strategic cul-de-sac. As former head of state, who is
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Mistral AI Secures $830M Funding Round Amid US-Europe Competition
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“The US is building two Apollo programs a year. Europe is building excellent regulation.”
— Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) 2 avril 2026
That’s not my line—it’s from the co-founder of @MistralAI, Arthur Mensch (@arthurmensch). On Monday, Mistral announced an impressive $830 million financing round to build a cutting-edge… pic.twitter.com/6NsEVJBLWR“The US is building two Apollo programs a year. Europe is building excellent regulation.” That’s not my line—it’s from the co-founder of @MistralAI
, Arthur Mensch (
@arthurmensch
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US AI Compute Concentration Shifting Geographic Distribution
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The infrastructure of Intelligence is concentrating in one place. Today over 75% of the world’s advanced AI compute sits in the United States. China has around 15%. Europe less than 4%. But the geography inside the US is shifting. The new Intelligence factories are moving into
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Tech Companies Face Energy Independence Requirements Under New Pledge
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Did you read about the Ratepayer Protection Pledge? Essentially all tech companies have to build, bring or bit their own energy so they cannot force price/utility hikes on to consumers. That is a small price for them to pay (treating energy-generation as part of their core tech
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Services comprise 81% of British economy structure
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And worth remembering that 81% of the British economy is comprised of services.
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Physical Limits and Data Sovereignty in Enterprise AI Systems
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Cheap consumer chatbots might average out globally, but frontier enterprise Intelligence won't so long as we face physical limits to Intelligence production. And also consider: 1/ Sovereignty. UK banks/ gov / military / enterprise etc can’t legally send their petabytes of data