The defining technological race is for AI, and here the capital gap is starkest Did you know that the lead AI company in 2014 was European? It was DeepMind - now property of Google. This is an American corporation benefiting from European talent that struggled to scale effectively at home This dependence is politically contingent. Washington can switch off access to US technologies overnight. In June 2026, foreign nationals were barred from accessing Anthropic’s most powerful models