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As of September 2026. The builders of frontier AI are publicly calling for a brake they admit they cannot pull alone. Oversight still holds — but it is no longer assured.
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Alibaba’s Pitch to Europe: “Build on Our Open AI — Before America Shuts You Off Too”
Alibaba’s Joe Tsai told Europe open-source AI is its only path to independence from both superpowers. The diagnosis is sound — the prescription sells Chinese infrastructure. watchchina.ai on why Europe should take the insight and shop the cure carefully.
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Alibaba’s Joe Tsai told Europe that open-source AI is its only path to independence from both superpowers. The diagnosis is genuinely sharp — the prescription sells Chinese infrastructure. watchchina.ai reads both at once.
Our members-only forecast explains why China is making Europe its priority courtship target for 2027, why “how open is open?” becomes Europe’s central AI-procurement debate within a year, and why Europe’s sovereign-AI drive will build the infrastructure but remain dependent at the foundation-model layer through 2028 — escaping the API, not the underlying model.
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DeepSeek Just Open-Sourced a Weapon Aimed at Nvidia’s Last Fortress: CUDA
Nvidia’s chips can be matched. Its CUDA software moat was supposed to be unbreakable. Today DeepSeek open-sourced Huawei-built tools to route around it — free to the world. watchchina.ai on the assault on America’s last real advantage.
No Deal Was the Deal: Trump and Xi Spent Hours on AI — and Agreed Only Not to Govern It
Trump and Xi spent hours on AI and reached no deal — just an agreement not to govern it. watchchina.ai predicted exactly this for four months. The non-outcome is the story: the race now belongs to chips, power, and open-source code.
The DeepSeek Engineer Teaching AI to Replace Him — What the Viral Version Gets Wrong
“AI is improving itself now” is going viral, built on a real DeepSeek engineer’s essay. But he explicitly rejected both readings the hype attaches to him. The real story is an elegy for lost craft — and a window into why talent chooses China’s open labs.