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Feed post Linas Beliūnas 3h • Edited Europe keeps asking how to regulate AI. Jensen Huang just told Chancellor Merz it's asking the wrong question first: "There's nothing to regulate if the industry doesn't thrive." - Jensen Huang It seems Europe's real problem may not be regulation after all. It's that there isn't enough industry (especially AI) to regulate yet. Europe needs to accelerate. P.S. also check out The Attention Bottleneck 🧠 (How AI agents reshaped jobs, hiring and productivity at Anthropic, and what it means for founders & investors building in AI): https://lnkd.in/dETe5-k8 75 44 1 ​ 75 reactions Add a comment... Linas Beliūnas Author 28m BTW, in case you missed it, also check out a16z's State of Markets 2026: The AI Playbook for Founders and Investors 💸: https://linas.substack.com/p/a16z-state-of-markets-2026 0 Branko Kragovic 3h Worth noting who said it. The person selling the chips will always say build first and sort out the rules later. Doesn't make him wrong, but it's not a neutral take. 3 reactions 3 3 3 See previous replies Linas Beliūnas Author 1h Branko Kragovic can agree with that. :) 1 reaction 1 Daman Talwar 3h Regulating an industry before it exists is just red tape disguised as progress. Jensen basically handed them a 10 second reality check. 2 reactions 2 4 4 See previous replies Daman Talwar 2h Linas Beliūnas US takes years to innovate, China uses every trick possible to catch up and Europe is stuck in regulation. Action requires comfort with failure and European policy is designed entirely to prevent it. 2 reactions 2 Mitja Kravos 3h Regulation is the easy thing to point at. In many European companies, AI moves more slowly because of internal approval chains than because of Brussels. A team that can try something on Monday and decide on Friday will move faster under any rules. 2 reactions 2 3 3 See previous replies Linas Beliūnas Author 1h Mitja Kravos sadly you’re right here, and I can only hope that we’re wrong… 0 Dilan Abeya 3h 100% SO TRUE!!!!! Europe, and particularly the UK, needs to understand this. You cannot regulate your way to innovation, entrepreneurship or economic growth. You need to create the conditions in which founders, businesses, investment and innovation can actually thrive FIRST. Regulation has its place. But when the focus shifts disproportionately towards controlling rather than enabling, you risk driving away the very entrepreneurs, talent and capital needed to build the future. I’m seeing the contrast firsthand building YOORZ® in the UAE. You cannot regulate an industry into existence. You have to allow it to flourish. 2 reactions 2 1 1 Linas Beliūnas Author 1h Dilan Abeya glad it resonated and well put - appreciate your commentary here. 0 Frank Semmig 3h We had to keep the Banks on a regulatory tied leash after the financial crisis 2008. If you start regulating AI when millions are unemployed or thousands of companies get hacked and patents and knowledge stolen by foreign actors - it’s too damn late. 3 reactions 3 1 1 Linas Beliūnas Author 1h Frank Semmig but can you regulate things you don’t understand and barely contribute anything to building them? 🤔 0 AI Insights Network AI Insights Network 3h Jensen's line that there is nothing to regulate if the industry does not thrive is easy to quote and harder to test. Which European AI company would you point to as proof for or against it? 1 reaction 1 1 1 Linas Beliūnas Author 2h AI Insights Network we barely have any companies in frontier AI space, and those who are here are quite far behind the US counterparts. 1 reaction 1 Ana Lucas 3h Frank Semmig exactly. Regulation by definition is iteractive. And it's ALWAYS too late. Jensen is defending his own interest and the interests of his company - as a CEO should do - but is forgetting social responsibility - as every tech CEO normally does. The question of Europe accelerating in AI or not is a different discussion alltogether. 1 reaction 1 1 1 Frank Semmig 2h Ana Lucas thanks Ana; we discuss this also within my 5th Palma Leadership Forum which addresses small and medium sized companies operating from or within Spain. https://www.palmaleadershipforum.com 1 reaction 1 Maria Dimie 1h Looks like a chicken and an egg problem to me 🤔 You can’t regulate something that doesn’t exist. Yes. But sometimes trying to regulate something that does exist and thrive can be too late… 0 See more comments To view or add a comment, sign in