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The article highlights how Ajinomoto's obscure build-up film (ABF) is a critical, near-monopoly component in AI chips, and critiques the UK government's £1.1 billion AI Hardware Plan for focusing on compute and design while ignoring such concentrated supply-chain bottlenecks.
Al Vigier argues that Canada's new AI strategy, 'AI for All,' ignores existing secret contracts with US firm Palantir, undermining its goal of building sovereign AI capacity.
The author recounts teaching 'Free Systems' at Stanford GSB, where students built private AI evals and workflows using Claude Code and OpenRouter, emphasizing that human expertise is prerequisite for personal sovereignty in an AI-driven world.
A user breaks down the actual costs of self-hosting AI inference hardware vs renting cloud compute, concluding self-hosting is not cheaper per token but is worth it for privacy, control, and tinkering.
Bert Hubert advises organizations on concrete steps to regain digital autonomy, such as halting migrations to US big tech, removing American trackers from websites, and questioning the necessity of SaaS dependencies.