France's Lescure Urges Europe to Speed Up AI as U.S. Labs Push Frontier Slowdown

French Finance Minister Roland Lescure has pushed back against the new Silicon Valley call to slow frontier AI, arguing that U.S. leaders want competitors to ease off so they can remain ahead and that Europe should accelerate instead. The dispute turns a safety debate over self-improving models into a broader fight over AI sovereignty, compute capacity and who gets to set the pace of the industry.