Laura Dubois

This is a really big deal because the US had so far limited access to this really powerful model to mostly US-based companies in the UK.

And so far, the US was pretty lukewarm on extending wider access to this model.

And the reason is that this model is so powerful that it can detect cyber vulnerabilities really easily.

And Anthropic was basically worried that it could be used to stage cyber attacks if it fell into the wrong hands.

And the fact that the EU is now also in this group, it's very significant for Brussels and will sort of help the institutions stress test their systems.

Yes.

So the terms and conditions of the access still have to be discussed.

Basically, EU officials traveled to San Francisco last week to discuss this.

And then Anthropic over the weekend extended the invitation to the EU cybersecurity agency, which is called INISA.

But the negotiations are now going to continue because there are also safety concerns on the EU side.

Because the model is so powerful in scanning for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, it also means that Anthropic would sort of have an insight into the EU systems and where they are vulnerable.

So basically now officials just really want to make sure that all the terms and conditions are set in a way that there are no safety concerns for the EU as well.

So the EU has tried to wean itself off of its dependency on US tech for a longer time now.

And tech sovereignty is a really big topic of discussion here in Brussels.

And actually this week, the commission is coming with a so-called tech sovereignty package, which will include new rules and sort of incentive for companies to invest in

in Europe and build data centers here.

It will also help boost European producers like SAP or Mistral to sort of really have the conditions to produce cloud infrastructure and other things that you need to power AI from Europe.

So we're not so reliant on U.S.

providers anymore.

And it's kind of interesting that this Anthropic deal comes at the same time where this package is coming.