Smaller models are the future of AI sovereignty
Real sovereignty is not autarky. It is the ability to choose, govern, replace and, when necessary, walk away from the AI systems our institutions depend on.
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When the Test Becomes the Threat Model
The OpenAI and Hugging Face incident shows why agentic AI governance cannot stop at the model. The real risk lies in the environment: tools, permissions, incentives, evidence and the ability to stop an agent before an evaluation becomes an incident.
US cloud act, sovereignty, and why you might need to care
Airbus’s move to European cloud hosting is a reminder that data residency is not the same as digital sovereignty. Where your cloud provider is headquartered, and which laws it answers to, can matter as much as where your data sits.
Australia needs to stop talking about AI as if it were just software
Australia keeps talking about AI as if it were a software problem, but the real issue is the stack beneath it: compute, chips, infrastructure, governance, and decision rights.
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.
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.