The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that Austria wants the EU to consider hosting Anthropic to counter United States restrictions on foreign access to the artificial intelligence company's advanced models. A Reuters dispatch to The Globe reports that in a letter to EU Technology Commissioner Henna Virkkunen, Austria's State Secretary for Digitalization Alexander Proell wrote it was important that Europe was not cut off from major innovations. He said in his letter: "Let us jointly explore the strategic establishment and participation of Anthropic within the EU. With legal certainty, market access, capital and a set of values that suits this company." He did not say how the step could be taken and admitted there would be skepticism about whether it was possible. "The real question is not whether it is easy," Mr. Proell wrote. "The question is whether we Europeans are prepared to be the architects of our technological future, or whether we wish to remain mere administrators of decisions made elsewhere." Earlier this month, the European Commission proposed laws to strengthen domestic cloud, AI and semiconductor industries while reducing reliance on U.S. Big Tech, despite criticism from the U.S. government.