In June, French president Emmanuel Macron held an exclusive dinner at the Élysée Palace with a special guest: Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Wine glasses clinked in honor of a deal his company had just unveiled with Mistral, the leading French artificial intelligence startup, to develop France’s largest data centers.Huang, dressed in a black t-shirt amid the Parisian suits, paused the celebrations for a brief warning about AI. “The problem in Europe and in France is: You are too slow,” Huang teased the attendees, a ...