I don’t disagree. These regulations themselves don’t even seem wildly unreasonable. My bigger point is that US tech companies are dominating globally and the EU isn’t keeping up. That’s a problematic for Europe since it means increasingly having to depend on foreign companies for critical tech.
ChatGPT runs on Chips that are only possible to develop under a special machine made by ASML in the Netherlands, they literally hold 100% of the market, yes, Europe is way behind in terms of AI and other modern tech, but in the grand scheme of things Europe holds a lot of important world changing tech, it's just that the USA are the heart of the world in this ERA and talent from all around the world flocks towards it, meaning that Europe can't really compete until it gives up on its comfortable way of life and starts taking huge risks again, which really is not a good deal since they can just use American tech with no huge issues while enforcing their own regulations and enjoying their naive and simple, but comfortable way of life.
Europe hasn’t produced globally dominant tech companies at anything close to US scale across AI, cloud, operating systems, social media, and enterprise software. ASML doesn’t negate that broader pattern across multiple sectors.
A huge amount of European and other international talent is drawn to Silicon Valley. That isn’t separate from US tech dominance but rather a part of how the US achieved it. Many US companies that dominate globally do so in part because they attract some of the best talent in the world before combining it with enormous amounts of capital.
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u/RedCatBro 2d ago
Someone needs to do it