#62 - AI42 Anthropic Fable Ban & the Sovereign Payment Blind Spot

Send us Fan MailThis audio production is intended to bring new technologies that impact our lives, like digital assets, central bank digital currencies and artificial intelligence in an easy to understand way to a larger audience.In this episode, we detail the following: For Europe, the unprecedented shutdown of access to Anthropic Mythos and Fable proves that relying on US-based AI models creates a severe strategic dependency; access can be abruptly terminated by foreign export politics. In payments, Europe was smarter a little faster and to reduce reliance on American duopolies like Visa and Mastercard, European and UK institutions have launched major sovereign payment initiatives for humans, including the Digital Euro, the European Payments Initiative's Wero wallet, and the UK's DeliveryCo. While these initiatives aim to retain transaction data and lower costs within Europe, they are entirely missing the emerging paradigm of sovereign AI agentic paymentsFor more on AI and digital assets, check out Leon's books on those subjects. They can then be found on Amazon : http://tiny.cc/cbdcMore information is available on www.digitalekho.com