Remember how Ursula told everyone that the EU will heavily invest in AI and how they'll also seek to create EU Visa/MasterCard competitors to reduce US dependencies? Yeah?
I don't see any progress. ...
The payments project actually shipped. Wero, the successor to the failed European Payments Initiative, launched in Germany, France and Belgium in 2024 with 16 major banks behind it. On Palantir, the contracts are real but contested. Germany's Constitutional Court ruled Hessian police use of Gotham partly unconstitutional in 2023.