For publication: Sunday, 2 August 2026 Yesterday’s Su-57 story was about the…
The Alliance Cannot Fight Through a Black Box — Why Huawei Was Only the Warning
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Signal: The 24-Hour Coincidence That Tells You Everything About the OCR Market
June 22, 2026: Baidu open-sources Unlimited-OCR under MIT — one-shot multi-page document…
Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR Reads a 40-Page PDF in One Pass — Here’s What the Viral Posts Get Wrong, and What Actually Matters
A 3-billion-parameter model — 500 million active — that parses an entire…
The Wrong Test: “Not American” Is Not a Sovereignty Standard
Europe has a new sovereign AI champion, and its parent is Canadian.…
The 24% Rule: Why Most “Sovereign Cloud” Certifications Don’t Test Sovereignty
A vendor slides a deck across the table. ISO 27001. SOC 2…
The Supermarket That Bought Europe’s AI: Why Industrial Capital Beats Government Money
The €500 million cheque got the headlines. The €11 billion one is…
Kimi K3: The Gap Closed Six Months Early — and China Stopped Competing on Price
Moonshot AI shipped Kimi K3 yesterday. Every write-up you’ll read today says…
Against Sovereignty: The Strongest Case for Just Using the Best Model
This publication has spent five weeks arguing one thing. Own the model,…
Mistral’s Sovereignty Paradox: A Critical Look at Europe’s AI Champion
Here is a number that should be quoted more often than it…
Europe’s New Sovereign AI Champion Is 90% Canadian
On 24 April 2026, in Berlin, Germany’s Digital Minister and Canada’s AI…
