Eric Schmidt: The Age of Agents, Superintelligence, and Why Europe Is Falling Behind

Schmidt argues AI's economic wave is the largest tech transformation yet, but Europe's regulatory posture risks permanent competitive disadvantage.

• No bubble, says Schmidt: Anthropic's revenue growth smashed the record Google set while Schmidt was CEO, evidence real customers are paying for useful AI, not hype.
• AGI timeline estimate: Schmidt pegs true discovery-capable AGI at five to ten years away; current models can master all existing knowledge but not yet generate new scientific breakthroughs.

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