China has now leapfrogged a lot of their competitors in the West, says AI boss John Clancy, founder and CEO of Galvia AIIreland and the EU are “sleepwalking into inertia” in the wake of DeepSeek’s rise to disrupt the global tech and AI industry, according to the founder of one of Ireland’s AI firms.As the Irish Data Protection Commissioner confirmed that it has contacted the Chinese company over how it processes Irish and EU citizens’ personal data, local firms say that a chronic level of underfunding and underdevelopment will see Ireland and the EU relegated to a “distant” also-ran with