Silicon Continent
siliconcontinent.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2024
Writes on European technology policy, regulation, and economics, covering the GDPR, the EU AI Act, the single market, and Brussels lawmaking.
What HN saysHN commenters cite it in debates over European AI competitiveness, comparing EU efforts against the much larger spending by US firms like Meta.
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What HN people wrote when they linked it
jstummbillig · 2026-06-17
"Champions of a European AI model should ask themselves if a European effort would be more effective than Meta, which this year will spend more on chips ($125 billion) than Germany spends on defense ($114 billion) and offer salaries of over $100 million to attract the best researchers, and is still failing to catch up. Elon Musk tried and failed to build a good AI model."
https://www.siliconcontinent.com/p/nineteen-thoughts-on-ai-and-europe?…