In this episode, Magnus Oxenwaldt looks at a week where AI strategy collided with geopolitics. The US government blacklisted Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, OpenAI closed the largest private funding round in history, and the gap between European AI ambitions and American infrastructure became impossible to ignore.
Amid all of this, we still ask our main question: What does this mean for your business?
Quote: "This is what AI vendor risk looks like in 2026. It's no longer technical. It's geopolitical, and the scale of that dependency matters."
Highlights week 10:
- The US government labelled Anthropic a national security supply-chain risk, forcing federal agencies and contractors to stop using its AI models.
- OpenAI announced the largest private funding round in history, valuing the company at well over half a trillion dollars.
- Europe controls only a small share of global AI compute while US hyperscalers invest hundreds of billions in infrastructure.
- The message for businesses is clear: AI vendor choices are no longer just technology decisions, they are geopolitical ones.
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