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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War, Politics and Compute Power
War is politics by other means - and today, supercomputers, AI and platforms are the new “means” in US-China tech rivalry, compute sovereignty and AI governance.
AI boomers, doomers, and why sovereignty and investment now matter more than hype
Australia’s AI future won’t be decided by AI boomers or doomers, but by who owns the compute, sets the rules, and gets paid back for the infrastructure we build.
Beyond AI sovereignty: why the West relies on US frontier models and what comes next
The West has largely bypassed AI sovereignty, opting instead for dependence on US frontier models and raising urgent questions about control, resilience, and strategic agency.
The hidden politics of AI: sovereignty in a platform world
AI Sovereignty was never theoretical - you just weren’t paying attention
Anthropic, Fable 5, and why sovereign AI just got real
When Washington pulls the plug: Fable 5, Mythos 5, and why sovereign AI risk just got real.
Australia’s data sovereignty ambitions will fail without research compute
Australia’s lack of serious, at‑scale compute is not just a research productivity problem, it is a sovereignty problem as well. Our universities are trying to do world‑class work on infrastructure that simply does not match the ambitions in our national AI strategies or data sovereignty rhetoric.