DeepSeek’s AI chip is a wake‑up call: the arms race has only just started
DeepSeek’s push to design its own AI inference chip is a clear sign that the real AI arms race is shifting from flashy models to control of the hardware stack.
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The Two-Layer AI Stack: Cost Discipline Meets Strategic Leverage
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AI boomers, doomers, and why sovereignty and investment now matter more than hype
AI tokens and the ‘tokenpocalypse’
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The Two-Layer AI Stack: Cost Discipline Meets Strategic Leverage
AI shouldn’t be one big expensive model doing everything. Build a two-layer stack: a cheap, open-weight “engine” for execution, with frontier models as “steering” for judgment and edge cases. Own your costs, avoid lock-in, and let quality go up as prices go down.
Claude Science: a practical AI workbench for real scientific workflows
AI boomers, doomers, and why sovereignty and investment now matter more than hype
AI tokens and the ‘tokenpocalypse’
AI, Five Eyes, and the enterprise
Beyond AI sovereignty: why the West relies on US frontier models and what comes next
The hidden politics of AI: sovereignty in a platform world
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Machine overmatch in an age of software-defined war
Ukraine has shown that modern war is increasingly software-defined, data-dependent and commercially entangled. Salt Typhoon reveals what this means in peacetime: adversaries are mapping telecommunications, infrastructure and digital ecosystems long before a crisis begins.
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