Export controls, national LLMs, and bans on foreign AI tools highlight a global push for digital sovereignty and the strategic decoupling of AI supply chains.
Alibaba has banned employees from using Claude Code after security researchers found hidden code designed to identify Chinese users. The move, effective July 10, escalates a conflict with Anthropic over allegations of AI capability theft through indu...
The Portuguese government has released Amalia, a 9 billion-parameter Large Language Model under an Apache 2.0 license. Available in SFT and DPO variants, it aims to strengthen the country's digital sovereignty. The lack of coding benchmarks doesn't h...
With just over 10 million people, Portugal has released Amália, an LLM trained for European Portuguese. The government open-sources the model and its training data, betting on linguistic and digital sovereignty — a move that reignites the debate on d...
The US Commerce Department lifted export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5, ending a three-week freeze. The decision reignites debate over the fragility of cloud dependencies for frontier models and the implications for organizations pursuing technolog...
Huawei has open-sourced OpenPangu-2.0-Flash, a Large Language Model with 92 billion total parameters (6 billion active) and a 512K token context window. The release of weights, inference code, and training operations provides new opportunities for on...
DeepSeek, a Hangzhou-based lab, closed a record $7.4 billion round at a valuation above $50 billion. It’s the latest sign of the capital flood sweeping Chinese AI—and it could speed up the release of open, efficient models optimized for local inferen...
