Sovereign AI #
- Sovereign AI promises independence, but often deepens reliance on US vendors, Stanford report says (DigiTimes, covering a Stanford report) — Concrete data point for the sovereignty-paradox argument already tracked here: Jensen Huang toured London and Paris this week signing sovereign-AI cloud deals with local providers across the UK, Germany, France, and Italy — including an NVIDIA-Deutsche Telekom AI cloud platform in Germany that Chancellor Merz called “an important step” for digital sovereignty. Every one of these “sovereignty” deals routes through NVIDIA hardware, making the abstract Stanford/WEF argument (nations seeking independence end up more dependent on a single US vendor) visible as an actual signing spree rather than a theoretical risk.