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June 2026

The Models That Learned Physics
Generative AI isn’t just chatbots and code. The transformer architecture has quietly generalized far past language, and the next domain it’s reaching is…
 • Julien Simon
Too Dangerous for You, Free for Everyone
America locked up its best models. Europe regulates a frontier it can’t build. China gives its best to the world and is winning.
 • Julien Simon
Two Laws, One Dependence
Europe moved twice on cloud sovereignty this month. One proposal makes the American duopoly easier to move within. The other grades everything about a…
 • Julien Simon
Independent or Current
Europe built the most ambitious AI enforcer in the world. It still has to ask the labs how to grade them.
 • Julien Simon
Anthropic's Model Got Pulled. The Dangerous Ones Didn't.
A US export order pulled Anthropic’s best model from every customer on earth in one evening. The thousands of models built to refuse nothing stayed…
 • Julien Simon
Cash Flow Lends. Valuation Doesn’t.
Three borrowers, three answers, seventy-two hours. The AI debt boom did not slow down last week. It got priced.
 • Julien Simon
Nvidia Won the Cloud. Now It Wants the Laptop.
Nvidia’s new laptop chip trails Apple where it counts and it was built to win anyway.
 • Julien Simon
Macron Said Confirmed. SoftBank Said Up To.
The €93 billion headline is mostly one company's pledge. The pledge is mostly a ceiling. The balance sheet beneath it is the most concentrated in AI.
 • Julien Simon
The Amendments Were Whispered
A deputy in the president's own party admitted who wrote his amendments. The moat just confessed.
 • Julien Simon
The Overbuild Put
Meta is the only hyperscaler without a cloud business. It just told shareholders it might need one — and that is the most revealing thing it has said…
 • Julien Simon
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