U.S. Official to Europe: Align With U.S. on AI or Fall Behind
European Union's participation in a State Department effort to secure global AI supply chains remains uncertain.
April 2, 2026 – U.S. Under Secretary for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg labeled the removal of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act as a remedy to “90 percent of issues” in accelerating U.S.-EU artificial intelligence leadership and competitiveness.
By restricting how companies like Google, Microsoft, and Meta combine user data across services, prioritize their own products, and distribute software, the EU law could limit how U.S. companies train and refine modern AI systems.
“The biggest source of what we view as unfair treatment of American companies in the form of fines, most of them have come out of the DMA,” Helberg remarked Wednesday, regarding how Europe and the U.S. can prevent fragmentation and jointly shape global AI standards.
