Europe is falling behind in the AI race. U.S. private investment in AI rose to $285.9 billion in 2025, according to Stanford University figures, dwarfing the $20.9 billion invested in Europe. The U.S. has higher AI adoption rates, a greater number of data centers, and the most valuable AI companies in the world. In total, eight U.S. tech companies have surpassed trillion-dollar valuations, with OpenAI and Anthropic poised to join their ranks. Currently, the closest Europe comes to a trillion-dollar business is ASML, which has a market cap of $670 billion. Europe’s struggle to build a trillion-dollar market-cap company has…