GERMANY PERSPECTIVE

Berlin offers the densest analysis of the file — Germany greets the news with almost clinical economic lucidity. FAZ opens with irony: "The AI leader argues for a development pause." For the German press, Anthropic's move is tactical: only a player in a position of strength can afford to ask its rivals to slow down, and only because slowing everyone mechanically reinforces its position. Tagesschau adds the line that hurts: "The stock markets shrug." After a dip on Thursday, AI shares climbed again Friday. Anthropic "acknowledges" that the branch is not ready to cooperate — companies are racing each other in infrastructure investment instead ("hundreds of billions in chips and data centers"). But the German press highlights the crucial detail: Anthropic, with $30 billion in revenue in 2025, is aiming for its first profitable quarter. SpaceX lost $5 billion on $18.7 billion in revenue. OpenAI burned around $10 billion. None of the three is yet profitable. FAZ adds context: Anthropic is still in a court case with the Pentagon (refusal of domestic surveillance + autonomous weapons → "supply chain risk" designation). ZEIT widens the lens: three monster US IPOs in 2026, Europe "completely left behind" with SAP weighing 7 times less than SpaceX, and a European fund + open source program to catch up. The question remains, Berlin asks: can we still hope for a European AI champion?