Washington just showed Europe how quickly an AI dependency can become a crisis

When Washington forced Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from foreign users on June 12, European hospitals and banks lost access to embedded AI tools without warning. The episode exposed a structural gap: Europe holds just 5% of global AI compute against the US's 70-80%, and analysts say closing it would require €100 billion annually through 2031, a figure that dwarfs every current EU commitment.