Headlines ...
Hmm. If you're the EU, and you're freaking out about something, that something might be a public good.
“Why Europe is Freaking Out Over AI *** Europe desperately needs to create a ChatGPT or Claude of its own. Otherwise, it cld be subject to the whims of the White House, writes Siobanh Kennedy” 6/20/26 open.substack.com/pub/channel4...
As mentioned in the article, the closest they have as a company is France's Mistral for a model, but they don't have the software that Anthropic/Claude et al. have.
Models-wise, the not-US option is China's 6 AI Tigers. They have the further virtue of being non-participants in the game of financialchicken the US players are running.
On the software side, China's big retailers and Internet service suppliers are pacing a few months behind in near-equivalents
In both instances the west Pac Rim has its own purposes that don't align perfectly with the USA's. Offsetting, perhaps, is those software players are also unlike any other similar companies world-wide in their downstream-of-frontier-model R&D using their own labs.
Interesting times with ramifications for BlueSky AI noodlers and the more serious.