Is Europe Dying?

Regulation and Innovation

Bindu Reddy is an accomplished Silicon Valley technical founder. She is also a prolific poster to X.

This week (see X of the Week below) she posted this:

Raph H replied with a Leon Blum quote from 1932:

I spent the past two weeks in Paris and London so this piqued my interest.

The news that the AI regulations passed by the European Commission come into force this week and the accompanying US news that Google has been found guilty of being a monopolist in mobile search and is abusing that monopoly both serve to force a discussion about regulation and decline — or, in the inverse, regulation, and innovation.