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June 21, 2026
Europe Has the Apps. Nobody Uses Them. Here's Why.
Everyone blames the Cloud Act for why we're all still on Discord and Slack. But the EU alternatives mostly exist, and some of them are good. The reason they never get traction isn't the one we keep telling ourselves.
July 4, 2026Europe Is Finally Building a Frontier Model. The Money Says Otherwise.
The EU just picked a team to build an open-source frontier model in all 24 languages. It's the right move, honestly. Then you look at what OpenAI loses in a single month, and at why Mistral's reasoning story stalled, and the size of the bet gets hard to ignore.
July 10, 2026I Keep Writing That Europe Is Losing. Munich Just Switched On 10,000 GPUs.
I've written a run of gloomy posts about European sovereignty. Then I actually added up what got built and funded this year, and I owe the continent at least a partial apology. Emphasis on partial.