To give you an idea of ​​just how backward the German media landscape is when it comes to AI, consider the three main topics featured in Monday’s *Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung*, arguably Germany’s most significant daily newspaper.

Topic 1: AI "frontier labs" are anti-democratic and dominate the public sphere; this, it is argued, cannot be allowed to continue.

Topic 2: Meta is updating its terms of service and allegedly stealing from journalists, in short: AI labs are wicked thieves.

Topic 3: A neuroscientist claims that social networks harm children and, consequently (!), calls for a decoupling from Silicon Valley.

It’s completely absurd. Europe has lost.