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News of the day
1. US drafts letter urging partner nations to select sides in the AI competition between Washington and Beijing, impacting global tech alliances. → Read more
2. OpenAI launches Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT, enabling users to manage, analyze, and send texts directly from the chatbot. → Read more
3. OpenAI previews transparent background generation for GPT-Image-2, baking alpha channels directly into images for superior results. → Read more
4. Superwhisper releases S1-mini, a 462MB open-weights text normalizer that cleans raw ASR transcripts by removing fillers, correcting self-corrections, and applying punctuation. → Read more
Our take
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Washington is drafting a letter to its partners, and the message fits in one line: to be part of everything is to be part of nothing. In practice: countries that join the AI organization Beijing launched in July will find the door to Pax Silica closed, the American coalition built around chips, models and critical minerals. Around two dozen countries have signed, plus the EU. Kazakhstan signed with both camps, and is probably rereading its inbox with a certain amount of sweat this week.
The American reasoning holds up. When China refines most of the world's rare earths, a coalition on supply chains is far from absurd. The problem is assuming technology can be carved up as neatly as minerals. Chinese open weight models can be downloaded, run on your own hardware, and ask permission from no one. You can control lithography machines and GPUs. You control a weights file far less well.
Yesterday we covered GEN-1.5, the model that teaches a robot a new task from a ten second demonstration, with no retraining. That is the real tempo of this industry. A capability now spreads at the speed of a video, while a diplomatic bloc takes months to negotiate and locks you in for years.
Demanding exclusivity is rarely the move of someone winning comfortably. It is the move of someone worried about no longer being the obvious choice. And for a European country, signing an exclusivity clause with a supplier remains the least comfortable decision there is, especially in a market that reshuffles every six months.
Sovereignty is not about picking the right side. It is about having enough compute, talent and models that the question comes up far less harshly next time.
Alex.
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