The EU’s €200 billion to “Plug baby plug”

Welcome to AI Collision 💥,

In today’s collision between AI and our world:

• Plug baby plug
• Macron meets Altman
• Which is the best, or worst, slogan?

If that’s enough to get the world leaders sloganing, read on…

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When world leaders read some of the drivel they’re given by their speech writers, do you think they send it back saying, “No, that makes me look like a complete idiot”?

Or do you think they may be just that disconnected from reality that they’ll say whatever someone else thinks is a good idea?

On Monday I wrote to you:

“Build baby build.”

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These are the words of Prime Minister Keir Starmer when talking about the government’s plan to make it much easier to build mini nuclear reactors across the UK.

Fundamentally, it should be easier to build nuclear energy in the UK. So from that perspective, anything that achieves that is good. However, leave the wannabe-Trump slogans at home please prime minister.

And you’d think that it couldn’t get worse than “Build baby build.”

Oh, but it can…

At the opening of the AI Action Summit in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron had this to say:

In this world where I have a good friend in the other part of the ocean saying drill baby drill… Here there is no need to drill, it’s just plug baby plug. Electricity is available. You can just plug. It’s ready. And I can tell you we will go fast and very fast.

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What’s next? A new Ed Miliband wind project where his catchphrase is “blow baby blow”?

Anyway, a number of world leaders are in Paris to discuss all things AI. The irony of an AI summit being held in the European Union shouldn’t be lost on anyone. Considering the most exciting thing Europe has come up with so far around AI is regulation, well, let’s just say we’re not expecting much.

Then again, looks like the US contingent, featuring Vice President JD Vance, weren’t expecting much either.

Here’s was VP Vance had to say to the audience:

The Trump administration will ensure the most powerful AI systems are built in the US with American designed and manufactured chips… and let me be emphatic about this point, America wants to partner with all of you. And we want to embark on the AI revolution before us with the spirit of openness and collaboration. But, to create that kind of trust we need international regulatory regimes that fosters the creation of AI technology rather than strangles it. And we need our European friends in particular to look to this new frontier with optimism rather than trepidation.

Shortly thereafter Ursula von der Leyen (president of the EU Commission) declared that Europe would be investing €200 billion in the InvestAI project to foster AI development in Europe. And then later in the afternoon, a sleuthy picture was taken of President Macron meeting with none other than Sam Altman.

What do you think they’re chatting about at this meeting? AI, nuclear energy, SMR tech or all of the above?

France says “plug baby plug” – which is really what AI needs in order to work – but is it in France they need to plug? Or are there better, smarter, more lucrative energy markets that AI and other industries should be plugging into? Maybe instead of what France has to offer, you should think about other energy market opportunities that have exponential growth factors at play.

For example, I know my colleague James Allen says there’s an energy play bigger than AI, with a record-breaking $3 trillion about to flood into this little-known corner of the energy market – one that most investors aren’t even watching.

He says he’s got three stocks right now that every investor should own that could tap into this $3 trillion opportunity.

I will admit I didn’t believe him at first. Then I saw what he had to say and at the very least it got me thinking about the other ways in which the markets can profit from everything that’s going on. I suggest you check out what he has to say as well.

Anyway, what’s clear is that if Altman is there talking to Macron about AI, nuclear or whatever it is that the EU wants to point their €200 billion towards, there’s a good argument that it’ll be Altman’s related companies that could benefit most.

Be it OpenAI, Oklo (OKLO) or even his nuclear fusion company, Helion Energy, it seems that while Elon Musk might have the close attention of the US president, maybe it’s Altman that has the close attention of the rest of the world.

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Boomers & Busters 💰

Surprise poll! I’ve noticed that in putting AI Collision out on a daily basis when I come to populate the Boomers & Busters section, not a whole lot changes each day.

The data I take is on a rolling week basis. And week to week the risers and fallers often does change from one week to the next.

But when I’m doing it daily, for most of the week the same three names keep popping up (and down). I don’t want to make this change if you like it, but I also am all for a democratic vote.

I wonder if getting the info daily on the three biggest weekly risers helps, or if you’d just rather get it at the end of the week or start of the week?

From the hive mind 🧠

• 32,000 hits to ChatGPT in a seven-day period is awesome. But so awesome that the heads of this law firm decided they needed to ban the use of AI in the office. Maybe it was just too good at being a lawyer?
• I didn’t have a partnership of Apple and Alibaba on my 2025 AI bingo card. But there you have it, this industry always surprises!
• I had a great lunch recently with a friend who runs a large and successful business. It’s rolling out AI through its organisation. He was commenting that while you think people are adaptive to change and technology, in reality most people push back on it. In his experience, as this pilot programme also proves, tech works and is good, but most people don’t really want to use

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Frankly it’s a choice of the most cringe phrases I’ve seen in recent times. But if you had to pick the worst of a bad bunch, what would it be?

Weirdest AI image of the day

Intergalactic Chess Battle – r/weirddalle

ChatGPT’s random quote of the day

Thanks for reading, and don’t forget to leave comments and questions below,

Sam Volkering

Editor-in-Chief

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