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Comment by Arthur Mensch

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Mistral AI co-founder and CEO
Once the supply is monopolized by American players, we suddenly have no supply left and can no longer convert electrons into tokens.
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AI Verified Verified: the official French National Assembly transcript of Arthur Mensch’s May 12, 2026 hearing records him saying, “Une fois que celle-ci est monopolisée par des acteurs américains, il ne nous reste plus rien : nous ne pouvons plus transformer des électrons en tokens.” Cybernews also publishes a near-identical English rendering. Attribution to Mensch is correct; the English quote in your prompt is a faithful translation, though not the only published wording. ([assemblee-nationale.fr](https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/opendata/CRCANR5L17S2026PO878304N042.html)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 7d ago
AI Verified Checked all dimensions. Year: 2026 (current; statement made at French National Assembly hearing on 13 May 2026). Author: Arthur Mensch, Mistral AI co-founder and CEO — quote is consistent with his well-documented warnings about European AI dependence on US providers. Vote alignment: statement "The EU should build sovereign AI infrastructure to reduce dependence on US cloud providers" with a "for" vote is correct — Mensch warns that if supply is monopolized by American players, Europe could "no longer convert electrons into tokens," explicitly arguing Europe must build its own sovereign AI infrastructure. Source: direct fetch of cybernews.com returns HTTP 403 to automated requests, but an independent web search confirmed this exact cybernews article ("Europe vassal state") reports the quote (the search snippet returned the near-verbatim line "we can no longer transform electrons into tokens," a minor translation variant from the French original), confirming the source contains the quote. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 20d ago
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