AI: Europe Doomed to Manage Its Dependence

Posted by Isabelle Szczepanski le 25 mars 2026

Faced with the impossibility of competing with the United States and China on key AI infrastructure, a report calls for a paradigm shift: managing dependence rather than pursuing an illusory sovereignty.

Sovereignty in artificial intelligence is largely a mirage. This is the central finding of a recent report based on an analysis of 25 national strategies: despite massive investments, most countries remain “structurally dependent” on a few critical control points (GPUs, cloud, models) dominated by a handful of players. This report was prepared by the think tank Digital New Deal founded by Olivier Sichel, CEO of France’s Caisse…

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