Europe's AI strategy rises: industrial competitiveness and tech sovereignty over speed

Europe plans to use VivaTech 2026 to showcase an AI strategy that differs from Silicon Valley’s speed-first model.

The approach emphasizes regulation, transparency, privacy, and infrastructure independence as core strengths.

Europe is focusing on industrial AI use cases in manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, cybersecurity, and energy infrastructure.

TechCrunch and VivaTech are also running a collaboration program to spotlight innovative startups.