The Trump administration's order forcing Anthropic to block non-Americans from accessing Fable 5 and Mythos 5 marks a warning shot for Europe. The continent must embark on an ambitious political agenda to create market conditions for its own AI labs to thrive.
Europe should initiate a coalition of AI middle powers to increase collective leverage, expand its share of compute, and reform its labour laws to preserve market leverage.
However, the hardest challenge for Europe is developing a positive vision to rally society behind this transformation, as data centres and AI bring disruption and job changes.
Europe must act while it still can to build a better future on this technology and avoid getting left behind.
