Dan Toma is CEO and Partner at OUTCOME, advising companies on strategy, portfolio management, and innovation-led growth. He is also the award-winning co-author of The Corporate Startup, Innovation Accounting, and Open Innovation Works.
Anthropic’s IPO threatens an AI valuation reality check, further exposing Europe’s critical funding gap. While the EU regulates, US and Chinese rivals outspend its startups tenfold. Can Europe fund its own AI future before it's too late?
Europe’s AI Act was mocked for preferring rules over innovation. Now, as US political whims disrupt giants like Anthropic, legal stability looks like a superpower. Austria wants to lure top AI labs to the EU, but can regulation alone replace American compute?