TechBBQ Copenhagen Debates Who Controls AI as Anthropic's Europe Outage Sparks Sovereignty Push

At TechBBQ 2026 in Copenhagen (Aug 26–29), Signal's Meredith Whittaker and Stability AI co-founder Emad Mostaque used the 'Emerging from Agency' theme to argue that whoever controls AI controls the country, citing the recent Anthropic outage that left European customers cut off from Mythos and Fable. The takeaway across panels, per TechCrunch's Aug 29 recap: Europe's investors and founders are now pushing hard for independence from US and Chinese AI stacks, with Whittaker warning against embedding assistants into operating systems.