A U.S. State Department draft would warn 35 countries that joining China’s World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization could exclude them from the U.S.-led Pax Silica AI coalition.

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China has reportedly ordered some state-linked organizations to uninstall its government-only edition of Windows 10 several months ahead of its planned February 2027 retirement, accelerating a transition toward domestic, largely Linux-based alternatives.

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Mistral AI is expanding its sovereign-AI strategy by hosting third-party open models, starting with Z.ai’s GLM-5.2, on the same infrastructure, regional controls, and service commitments as its own models. At the same time, the French company is assembling European enterprises to support up to 1 GW of regional AI compute by 2030, including roughly 200 MW planned by the end of 2027.

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Mistral Regional Endpoints are now generally available, allowing customers to route inference through Europe or the US. The EU option costs 10% more, but regional deployments currently exclude agents, batch processing, and file-management tools.

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Nearly three-quarters of European businesses now rate a potential US tech “kill switch” as a threat comparable to ransomware. A Proton survey also found that 54.5% could operate for no more than one day without US cloud and digital services, while many are seeking sovereign alternatives for email and cloud storage.

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