BREAKINGVIEWS — Europe has some scope to swerve an AI dark age

(The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are her own.) By Jennifer Johnson LONDON, Sept 24 (Reuters Breakingviews) — The continent produced just two advanced models last year — against 35 from China and 59 from the US. But it doesn’t need Silicon Valley superintelligence to capture value from AI. Pairing less-flashy homegrown tools with the bloc’s untapped trove of industrial data is a start. Full view will be published shortly. Follow Jennifer Johnson on Bluesky and LinkedIn. Context News European governments and AI companies have accused their US rivals of using safety fears to entrench their dominance — rejecting calls by Anthropic to slow the pace of AI development. "Some incumbents are using this moment to consolidate their market position, pushing for regulation designed to ⁠favour them over competitors," said French startup Mistral in a statement cited on September 18. In an essay posted on X on September 12, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said frontier AI companies should be subject to independent scrutiny and work on common standards. Germany’s digital affairs ministry subsequently suggested that stopping AI development was not a viab