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When Seoul Overruled the World Benchmark
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT has produced the clearest public record yet of what sovereign AI means once a government stops writing white papers and starts picking winners. Sixty of the hundred procurement points came from Korean-language depth and expert usability review — not benchmarks — so the world's tenth-ranked model was cut from the finalist list. An 80/20 distribution rule now steers citizen AI consumption onto domestic stacks by law, not preference.
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Sunday Essay · Brazil's Sovereign AI Runs Through the Cell Tower
Brazil's sovereign-AI strategy is being built by a set of overlapping institutional decisions rather than by a chip fab or a frontier model: spectrum obligations attached to 700 MHz licences, a state-cloud intermediation layer at Serpro, Telefônica Brasil's portable OpenShift platform, and a CPQD-led public-services model. The coherence is architectural rather than planned, and the cell tower is its load-bearing unit.
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Europe's AI talent pipeline is leaking at both ends
Europe builds compute it must import and under-builds the people it already has. We are spending three orders of magnitude more on machines than on curriculum, and the talent keeps walking out the door.
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