To give you an idea of ​​just how backward the German media landscape is when it comes to AI, consider the three main topics featured in Monday’s *Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung*, arguably Germany’s most significant daily newspaper. Topic 1: AI "frontier labs" are anti-democratic and dominate the public sphere; this, it is argued, cannot be allowed to continue. Topic 2: Meta is updating its terms of service and allegedly stealing from journalists, in short: AI labs are wicked thieves. Topic 3: A neuroscientist claims that social networks harm children and, consequently (!), calls for a decoupling from Silicon Valley. It’s completely absurd. Europe has lost.

Seriously: US news is so much better than German news. I have subscriptions to Bloomberg, the WSJ, The Information, and others; in Germany, I subscribe to *Der Spiegel*, the *Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung*, and more. You find very little coverage - especially regarding breaking news, the war in Iran, energy prices, data center expansion, and so on - compared to US news. It’s crazy, but I actually read more American news - even about European politics - than German news.