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They're LARPing as imperialists, maybe, but realistically as soon as they try anything, they will get stomped harder than Saddam Hussein during Gulf War 1.

China is using subsidies to accelerate the green transition, exactly like the US is doing with the "Inflation Reduction Act" and other initiatives.

Given that Europe hosts a negligible amount of global AI R&D and tech startups, the most likely outcome is that the rest of the world will keep going what they are doing, with most R&D done in the US and China, then companies will offer EU-specific products narrowly tailored to obey the letter of the law. That's not necessarily a good or bad thing, just the likely outcome.

Any word on exemptions for free and open source models in the final version? This was one of the worst features of the regulation during the drafting stage.

Conducting a never-ending program of global mass deforestation has other environmental costs.

Trees and phytoplankton keep the carbon around.

Lawyers and judges will decide. Any attempt to trigger this mechanism will set off a legal firestorm the likes of which has seldom been seen. And once it reaches the Supreme Court...

The points they're making are not wrong. We should be paying attention to the lifecycle emissions of green energy facilities (that isn't the same thing as not building those facilities). And we should be putting more resources into development of direct CO2 capture; the argument raised in the article, that CO2 capture is bad because it will draw attention from the green transition, is laughably stupid.

Worse still, Gemini Pro seems to perform worse than some of the recent free/open-source models, like deepseek.

Same reason he wants a 1980s style trade war against Japan. He doesn't think much about issues, so once he decides a soundbite is a good one, he'll use it for decades.

Why not sanctions? The US has been happy to impose individual sanctions in many other cases. Visa bans don't have significant impacts on people who don't want or need to travel to the US.