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Monitoring Was the Old Deal. Extraction Is the New One.
Monitoring measures a worker so a manager can manage them. Extraction copies a worker so the worker is no longer needed. Meta is running the second programme while calling it the first.
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Geopatriation in Plain Sight: A Field Report from Brussels, Delhi, and Washington
Geopatriation — the localisation of AI workloads under sovereign pressure — is the dominant pattern in 2026. The compute sits under local governance; the silicon supply chain has not been localised at all. The truth is in the clauses.
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