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The Backlash Is No Longer Local Noise The AI boom still gets described as if its biggest constraint is technical ambition. That framing is already out of date. The clearer signal is political. In France, resistance to new data centers has spilled directly into municipal election campaigns, where candidates are
The Race Everyone Is Watching Is Not the Real Race The biggest mistake in AI coverage right now is treating the race as a contest over better models when it is increasingly a contest over power. You can see that in U.S. warnings about China’s open-source AI momentum,
Provocative opening hook The biggest mistake in AI coverage right now is treating the race as a contest over better models when it is increasingly a contest over power. You can see that in U.S. warnings about China’s open-source AI momentum, in Europe’s scrutiny of AI platform
This week in AI made one thing unmistakable: the race is no longer just about better models. It is about power, policy, hiring, infrastructure, and geopolitical leverage. Over the last seven days, the strongest stories did not point in one direction. They pointed to a system taking shape. Washington is