When Thierry Breton stepped down as European Commissioner in 2024, he left behind a legacy of ambition and vision for Europe’s technological future. Breton had pushed for digital sovereignty, stronger industrial and AI policies and a robust regulatory framework. Yet, the landscape he helped shape has evolved into something far more complex than any single individual could steer.
Artificial intelligence is moving fast, sometimes faster than anyone can keep up with. Every few months a new breakthrough appears, promising more reasoning power, more creativity, more accuracy. Google’s release of Gemini 3 marks one of those moments where the landscape shifts again. Not because it replaces everything that came before, but because it shows how AI is evolving from a simple assistant into something much closer to a thinking partner.
Intelligence has always been a slippery concept. Is it the speed at which we solve equations, the breadth of knowledge we accumulate or the subtlety of the choices we make? Philosophers have long debated what it means to be intelligent and in the age of artificial intelligence, these questions take on new urgency. Superintelligence — a level of cognitive capability that far surpasses human intelligence — forces us to confront not just what intelligence is, but what intelligence ought to be.
If AI conversations feel like alphabet soup — AGI here, RAG there, open models, transformers, embeddings — you’re not alone. The technology is moving faster than our ability to name it. Yet understanding the language of AI is no longer optional. It’s the new literacy of the intelligence economy.
If the AI revolution had a wildcard, it would be Elon Musk — brilliant, unpredictable and occasionally tweeting like he’s speed-running the end of civilisation just to see how it performs under pressure. Founder of xAI, co-founder of OpenAI (yes, that happened) and long-time provocateur of the AI world, Musk occupies a unique position: both prophet and disruptor, critic and creator, visionary and chaos engine.
