At the mercy of Silicon Valley? Europe exposed by Trump AI export ban • FRANCE 24 English

Better to persuade or confront? Emmanuel Macron opting for the royal treatment with Donald Trump at Versailles, what with a dinner to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the King of France's support for the birth of a new nation: it's all about keeping the U-S president on board, on Ukraine, reopening the Strait of Hormuz and more. But will flattery work when it comes to the AI revolution?Lunch preceded dinner with tech titans the guests of honor on the closing day of the G-Seven summit in the French Alps. There, the elephant in the room was Trump’s sudden decision last Friday to give Anthropic 90 minutes to shut down foreign access to its latest artificial intelligence models. The reason cited, national security. How exposed are both governments... and major corporations like French banking giant BNP Paribas which recently announced it was partnering with Anthropic for its security needs? Can a stroke of the pen from the Oval Office suddenly expose the rest of the world to hackers?For years, the same Europeans who counted on the US defense shield to protect them also banked on its big tech… everything from Visa credit cards and Google searches to Amazon deliveries and cloud storage… Amazon whose boss Jeff Bezos was the star attraction at the big Vivatech trade fair here in Paris. Silicon Valley's dominance has grown to the point where it draws the planet's money and data. Its billionaire bosses dictate their terms and oligarchs like Elon Musk peddle pro-Kremlin, far-right messaging on their platforms. So how does the rest of the world defend its own national security and sovereignty? #ai #trump #anthropic 🔔 Subscribe to France 24 now: https://f24.my/YTen 🔴 LIVE - Watch FRANCE 24 English 24/7 here: https://f24.my/YTliveEN 🌍 Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https://www.france24.com/en/ Like us on Facebook: https://f24.my/FBen Follow us on X: https://f24.my/Xen Bluesky: https://f24.my/BSen and Threads: https://f24.my/THen Browse the news in pictures on Instagram: https://f24.my/IGen Discover our TikTok videos: https://f24.my/TKen Get the latest top stories on Telegram: https://f24.my/TGen