CEO of German generative AI startup Black Forest Labs, Robin Rombach, is pictured at the company's headquarters in Freiburg im Breisgau, southwestern Germany on September 15, 2026. A leading European AI startup has urged the region to view artificial intelligence with more optimism or risk falling further behind, despite growing warnings about the technology's dangers. (Photo by Silas Stein / AFP via Getty Images)

CEO of German generative AI startup Black Forest Labs, Robin Rombach, is pictured at the company's headquarters in Freiburg im Breisgau, southwestern Germany on September 15, 2026. A leading European AI startup has urged the region to view artificial intelligence with more optimism or risk falling further behind, despite growing warnings about the technology's dangers. (Photo by Silas Stein / AFP via Getty Images)

CEO of German generative AI startup Black Forest Labs, Robin Rombach, is pictured at the company's headquarters in Freiburg im Breisgau, southwestern Germany on September 15, 2026. A leading European AI startup has urged the region to view artificial intelligence with more optimism or risk falling further behind, despite growing warnings about the technology's dangers. (Photo by Silas Stein / AFP via Getty Images)

An employee of AI startup Black Forest Labs, who is responsible for refining AI models, works at a computer at the company's headquarters in Freiburg, southwestern Germany on September 15, 2026. The leading European AI startup has urged the region to view artificial intelligence with more optimism or risk falling further behind, despite growing warnings about the technology's dangers. (Photo by Silas Stein / AFP via Getty Images)

CEO of German generative AI startup Black Forest Labs, Robin Rombach, is pictured at the company's headquarters in Freiburg im Breisgau, southwestern Germany on September 15, 2026. A leading European AI startup has urged the region to view artificial intelligence with more optimism or risk falling further behind, despite growing warnings about the technology's dangers. (Photo by Silas Stein / AFP via Getty Images)

CEO of German generative AI startup Black Forest Labs, Robin Rombach, is pictured at the company's headquarters in Freiburg im Breisgau, southwestern Germany on September 15, 2026. A leading European AI startup has urged the region to view artificial intelligence with more optimism or risk falling further behind, despite growing warnings about the technology's dangers. (Photo by Silas Stein / AFP via Getty Images)

The lettering 'Welcome to the forest' is pictured at the headquarters of German AI startup Black Forest Labs in Freiburg, southwestern Germany on September 15, 2026. The leading European AI startup has urged the region to view artificial intelligence with more optimism or risk falling further behind, despite growing warnings about the technology's dangers. (Photo by Silas Stein / AFP via Getty Images)

CEO of German generative AI startup Black Forest Labs, Robin Rombach, is pictured at the company's headquarters in Freiburg im Breisgau, southwestern Germany on September 15, 2026. A leading European AI startup has urged the region to view artificial intelligence with more optimism or risk falling further behind, despite growing warnings about the technology's dangers. (Photo by Silas Stein / AFP via Getty Images)