Don't confuse the "EU" with "Europe". One is a trade and law union, the other is a continent of countries. Europe isn't a unanimous entity either, its a big pile of countries with independent politics.

The nuclear deterrent is just as strong as it needs to be. If nuke strikes come, we're all dead regardless if we have 5 or 500 bombs to drop on Moscow.

And again, this is irrelevant to abusive authority on technology. If "Europe" wasn't "dependent on US defence" would they send a destroyer fleet to the US cost as a retaliation?

The US is using its tech companies to pressure foreign democratic allied countries over political issues. This is undermining the free trade that allowed these companies to exist in the fireplace.

Continued moves in this direction will just push nationalistic ideas in European nations to cut out US influence entirely.

How is is defence relevant in this article? This is abusing of the private sector monopoly of alot of internet infrastructure. Nothing of this is military in nature.

That sounds like ludicrous overkill to me.

I don't quite see how this would help OCR at all? or am I misunderstanding what kind of OCR you're thinking of?

Seems like every mask is one pass. So even multiple penguins are multiple inferences. But if it continues from SAM 2, the heavy compute is the original image encoding which is reused and cashed for every inference.

No idea what they will do for their API, but from a compute perspective the prompt is free once the image is processed.