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Mistral and other European AI startups accuse US rivals of using safety concerns to entrench their dominance, rejecting Anthropic's calls to pace the frontier (Reuters)

Europe's leading AI company Mistral and others have accused US rivals of using safety concerns to entrench their dominance …

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