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Comment by mondrian

8 hours ago

Europe is a different beast. They build and distribute rails, they don’t compete on frontier capabilities. When the civic benefits of AI become clear, EU is in a position to mandate their distribution. US develops capabilities that remain stuck in heterogeneous corporate silos without interop. Payments is a good point of comparisons between the two approaches.

A new ICE line between Antwerpen and Koln opened up the last week. The first train was half an hour late, the distance is under 250 km.