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AI sovereignty is not real

Nobody owns the whole stack

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Mahdi Assan
Jul 24, 2026
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AI sovereignty is a dumb idea.

The truth about AI or tech sovereignty more generally is that the truest version of this is basically impossible today. There is just too much interdependence.

Just take a look at the AI supply chain and you can see this.

The whole chain involves so many actors and no one part of the chain works in isolation. Chip designers d…

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