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Braid Daily · 2026-06-17

Four governments reach for the AI dependency levers

France moves off Palantir as the UK, EU, and G7 each pull a different lever on AI dependency in the same week.

Dark editorial cover: minimal sovereign seals and banners ringing a central data-center silhouette, thin connective lines being severed, lit by a single signal-yellow accent.

The lead

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France is moving its data tooling off Palantir toward domestic options like ChapsVision, citing the risk of leaning on a foreign vendor. It's the most concrete of a run of government moves this week to pull AI infrastructure back under national control.

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Governments reach for the dependency levers

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EU: State of the Digital Decade 2026

European Commission

The Commission's annual report flags how far the bloc still trails on computing capacity and AI investment against its 2030 targets, and where it wants money to flow.

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G7, Trump, and the US labs

CNBC

CNBC connects the G7 summit and the Trump administration to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, a read on where policy and corporate power are meeting this week.

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GLM-5.2 gets a day-zero tooling rollout

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Fireworks serves GLM-5.2 on day one

Fireworks AI (X)

Fireworks is hosting GLM-5.2 from launch, a coding-first build with a one-million-token context window and SWE-bench numbers. These are provider claims, so latency and cost are yours to test.

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Physical AI builds a stack

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For builders: infra, evals, and agent reliability

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Companion episode

When Dependency Becomes Policy

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Last week the sovereignty story was one company and a single export order. This week it's four governments pulling different levers inside a few days, all pressing on the same dependency. The two threads are easier to read side by side.