You clearly are very frustrated that you're being left out of their AI, to the point you're wishing you could use violence to take their money over it.

The problem is you seem to think your involvement in the advancements should be orthogonal to your involvement in regulation.

That doesn't work in a world with sovereign nations: as cartoonish as comparing this to nuclear holocaust is, who do you think had more of a role in disarmament, the nuclear-weapon states, or the non-nuclear powers signing treaties with other non-nuclear powers?

If France had their own OpenAI releasing their own Sora with all the regulations you can dream of there'd be more of a discussion to be had over how a SOTA model should be rolled out, with actual counterfactuals to the approach the US and China have taken.

(Of course, Mistral is mostly American money... so I wouldn't bank on them taking a different road.)