Trump to Zelenskyy:
“We are gonna give you a license to make Patriots.
This way he can't complain that we are not giving him enough.
Make them yourself.” 1/3
The CEO of ASML said Europe is "quite behind" in the AI race. This is not a politician. This is the man who controls the only machines on earth that can print advanced chips. Every semiconductor fab from TSMC to Samsung needs his approval to exist.
And he did not stop there.
Europe has been having the sovereignty conversation for three years. Build fabs. Reduce dependence. Catch up. It sounds right. He said it is the wrong order entirely.
His reasoning is blunt. Semiconductor manufacturing is only needed if you have people buying the chips. If Europe built a two nanometer fab today, most of those wafers would ship straight to the United States. Because the US buys 80% of the world's advanced chips. Europe buys almost none.
You cannot manufacture your way to relevance. You have to create demand first.
His actual sequence: start with the market. Build AI applications. Then AI products. Then chip design. Then and only then does chip manufacturing make sense.
Europe skipped four steps and went straight to the last one.
The sovereignty debate is loud in Brussels right now because of US export controls on AI models. Politicians are scared. The instinct is to build. He is saying the instinct is wrong.
You do not get sovereignty by building factories.
You get it by having something the world wants to buy.
(Watch the full 11 minutes Interview at @BloombergTV on YouTube)
It was in this palace in June of 1919 that the President of Germany Gustav Bauer signed the treaty of surrender and agreed to pay restitution to the allies. Trump is clueless as to what he just did.
> be Anthropic CEO
> leave OpenAI. can't trust the values.
> start Anthropic with your sister.
> build Claude. build Mythos.
> first testers: "this is a super weapon. don't release it."
> lose billions keeping it locked.
> Pentagon offers $200M. wants you to remove safety filters.
> you say no. they blacklist you. Trump calls you a lunatic.
> release Fable 5. Mythos-class. finally public.
> someone finds a jailbreak into the cybersecurity layer.
> US government: "suspend access for all foreign nationals."
> including your own employees.
> disable it. immediately.
> sit down for a 47-minute interview.
> tell them everything.
> 90% of code written by Claude.
> civilizational collapse: 10-25%.
> valuation: $965 billion.
> started because you couldn't trust someone's values.
> now governments decide what you can build.
> different game.
The US has started banning Europeans from using their latest AI models.
The EU needs sovereign models that compete, otherwise we will be cut off.
Mistral is perfectly positioned to deliver, European governments must choose it, and help it thrive with less burdensome rules.