The article wastes no time getting to the underlying point in the very first paragraph:
Top executives at leading Western AI companies are increasingly warning about the safety and national security risks posed by Chinese open-weight frontier models. What they tend not to mention is that these models are improving rapidly and, because they are freely available, pose a serious threat to Western labs’ business models.
I found the following two paragraphs interesting:
By mid-2026, however, open-weight frontier models from Chinese labs such as Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI had nearly matched the leading Western models in intelligence and performance. Many companies have already begun building their AI systems on top of these free models, avoiding the high cost of closed-model APIs.
Because businesses can host open-weight models in their own private clouds, they can also avoid sending proprietary data to systems controlled by outside providers. Developers can fine-tune the models for specific needs, build applications and tools on top of them, and optimize them for their preferred infrastructure.
they can also avoid sending proprietary data to systems controlled by outside providers.
Not only proprietary but also personal or other kinds of sensitive data.
If you are doing health research on databases of personal health data, you should be able to guarantee the safety of that data.
That means you can’t use the current American systems, because they’ve been shown to be insecure.
This would be a major issue in EU, where such data is legally protected.
I absolutely agree that that agreement is complete and utter bullshit.
Hopefully the shift there has been to achieve IT independence from USA will mean EU doesn’t give in so easy next time.
The article wastes no time getting to the underlying point in the very first paragraph:
I found the following two paragraphs interesting:
Back to local computing is the way to go
It always has been. And yet consistently for decades they continually turn to Big Tech anyway…
Not only proprietary but also personal or other kinds of sensitive data.
If you are doing health research on databases of personal health data, you should be able to guarantee the safety of that data.
That means you can’t use the current American systems, because they’ve been shown to be insecure.
This would be a major issue in EU, where such data is legally protected.
Nothing a EU–US Data Privacy Framework can’t handle.
I absolutely agree that that agreement is complete and utter bullshit.
Hopefully the shift there has been to achieve IT independence from USA will mean EU doesn’t give in so easy next time.
These people are too rich to be punished by laws. They’re the people laws protect not the ones they bind.
Not in EU, Eu has given fines to those big tech companies before and can do it again.
Fines are just the cost of doing business.
Wake me up when corporate charters are dissolved and executives are put in prison.
More than their profits? Their profits over course of the shittiness?
Being less bald face and trying to hide your corruption better than America doesn’t make you the good guy.