geopolitics.layer.re · historical view at 2026-09-30
AI competition is extending beyond chips and software into research access and academic collaboration, adding knowledge flows to the contested geopolitical technology stack.
MI5 issued a public alert alleging that a China-linked organization funded academic work in AI, cybersecurity and related fields to benefit China's state security service; China's embassy denied the allegations.
evt-uk-mi5-ai-research-alert-20260930DeepSeek said it was open-sourcing programming infrastructure for Huawei Ascend chips and jointly advancing supernode software, including TileLang-related work.
evt-deepseek-huawei-stack-20260930Huawei announced a large-scale AI compute system built around UnifiedBus, NPO interconnects and up to 4,096 NPUs, alongside continued CANN open-source development.
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