At the opening of the Paris AI Action Summit this week, French president Emmanuel Macron walked into the Grand Palais flanked by Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. He greeted European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and other world leaders. Micheál Martin reached over to shake his hand. While Macron might have felt like the most popular boy in school, the real moment everyone was waiting for was his greeting of US vice president JD Vance in his first European trip since taking office. “It’s good to be here,” the Veep quipped but that’s where the niceties end. Vance, in…

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