A lot has been made of the EU’s weakening of controls over AI, in its much-trumpeted plan announced at the Paris AI Summit last week, when the €200 billion investment figure was floated. That was not cash on the table, unlike the EU’s seven-year Horizon Europe science research program, to which effectively €86.6 billion has been committed after allowing for inflation. The €200 billion is largely a target for investment from the EU’s major technology and industrial companies, some of which admittedly have shown willingness. There are, after all, some world class companies in the EU, such as Airbus which has benefited from rival Boeing’s travails, along with Germany’s Siemens, Infineon, Philips, and Volkswagen, as well as the jewel in…