Fertilizer from wastewater. Mobile drone hunters. Coal-to-gas is back. Leica swaps Japan for China. "Europe can ground Chinese planes by withholding Airbus software updates"—EU Council.
The Airbus software update threat and the 70% domestic wafer target are the same story told from opposite ends. One shows what leverage looks like when you depend on foreign proprietary systems; the other is the response. China's open-source AI dominance fits this pattern too. Meta already proved that https://thesynthesisai.substack.com/p/the-open-secret. If Chinese models become the global default, the leverage they create may eventually matter more than the code they share.
The Airbus software update threat and the 70% domestic wafer target are the same story told from opposite ends. One shows what leverage looks like when you depend on foreign proprietary systems; the other is the response. China's open-source AI dominance fits this pattern too. Meta already proved that https://thesynthesisai.substack.com/p/the-open-secret. If Chinese models become the global default, the leverage they create may eventually matter more than the code they share.