October 8, 2025
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The EU on Wednesday told European businesses in critical sectors to ramp up their uptake of artificial intelligence and pushed for the bloc to cut its dependence on foreign AI providers.
Although the European Union is falling behind the United States and China, Brussels believes the bloc can still compete in the global AI race.
To achieve this, the European Commission said it was mobilizing one billion euros ($1.6 billion) to push key sectors like pharmaceuticals, energy and defense, to promote "European AI-powered" tools and develop specialized AI models.
The majority of the one billion euros will come from the EU's Horizon research program, the EU executive said, and will be used for projects including deploying autonomous cars and advanced cancer screening centers.
Brussels is plowing billions of euros into developing Europe's AI network including building AI gigafactories and tripling data center capacity.
Only 13% of European companies last year used AI, EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said, although she said this figure had since increased.
The European Commission wants 75% of businesses to use AI by 2030.
"I want the future of AI to be made in Europe. Because when AI is used, we can find smarter, faster, and more affordable solutions," EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said.
Where possible, companies should "favor European solutions", Virkkunen told reporters in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, although she admitted this was not always possible.
In its strategy, Brussels warned "external dependencies of the AI stack"—the tools including infrastructure needed to build AI—"can be weaponized and thereby increasing risks to supply chains by state and non-state actors".
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