It's too late for this. The time to execute this was 20 years ago when EU had leverage (the EU stock market was bigger than the US one in 2004, now it's half). Now it's bogged down with massive domestic issues it can't recover from (some of which you mentioned), and starting a massive tech IP/trade war now with the US over Claude as retaliation for Trump will only hurt the EU working class more, as the US has more levers to pull being a big consumer of EU exports.

Unfortunately due to decades of neglect, mismanagement and bad policies, EU has backed itself into a corner making itself an easy mark for both the US and China to take advantage of as they lack any leverage to dictate international policies on their terms.

Also, many EU politicians have no idea how the internet works let alone what Claude is. So much talks coming out of the blue on this topic will be the mouthpieces of the lobbyists funding them in exchange for government money to build "EU sovereign products" which may or may not deliver.

@snovv_crash

>You spend too much time online

How can you insult people like that?

I base my assessment on the visible decline me and everyone around me see with our own eyes over the past 10 or so years. I can see for myself how my purchasing power has dropped like rock, how brutal inflation is, how much more expensive housing is relative to wages, how much more difficult it is to get a state doctor and childcare, the waves of layoffs me and friend experienced, etc. the news didn't have to tell people that, people can see and experience that for themselves. All these are not caused by one single issue that you can easily revert, they're a cumulation of multiple issues that accumulated over decades and are impossible to reverse in the current situation the EU is in.

It's so insulting when people are trying to gaslight you that your lived expiries are just "being online". So disingenuous and bad faith.

>The EU isn't bogged down with issues

It definitely is. That's why it can't take decisive actions against foreign bullies and impose its own policies. Because it would suffer retaliations it can not absorb. It's too inferior on energy and tech products from the US and too inferior on manufacturing from China, so it can't piss either of them off and is forced to play ball to their tune, while also playing to the tune of Azerbaijani authoritarianism for their gas imports and to the whims of Indian nationalists for access to their market. EU is currently in no position to bargain so it folds to everyone's demands.

The most egregious example: the core OpenAI team is like forty per cent Polish...?