💬 "The smartest people that I know in artificial intelligence actually think that they probably spent hundreds of millions, maybe even billions of dollars to train the model," the US Vice-President claimed, throwing out figures without backing them up.

💬 “And the model that they have is still actually not as good as some of the best American technology,” Vance boasted, providing no examples of the out-of-this-world, once-in-a-lifetime American tech marvels.

“As Europeans, we are prepared for counter-tariffs. The Americans must know: This is a very bad alternative,” he said.

“We will make it clear to the Americans: YOU ALSO HAVE SOMETHING TO LOSE. But if that doesn’t work, we cannot allow ourselves to be pushed around,” he added.