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1 million Genomes Later, the Bedside Model Still Waits
The UAE has assembled the most complete sovereign healthcare-AI stack any country has built: sovereign compute, a million-sample national genome programme, and a clinical model benchmarked ahead of GPT-4. The model's own authors say it is not yet fit for clinical use. That caveat is the most precise evidence about where the Gulf investment earns its return: in the biobank and the data-sovereignty infrastructure rather than in the generative layer above them.
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Sunday Essay · Brazil's Sovereign AI Runs Through the Cell Tower
Brazil's sovereign-AI strategy is being built by a set of overlapping institutional decisions rather than by a chip fab or a frontier model: spectrum obligations attached to 700 MHz licences, a state-cloud intermediation layer at Serpro, Telefônica Brasil's portable OpenShift platform, and a CPQD-led public-services model. The coherence is architectural rather than planned, and the cell tower is its load-bearing unit.
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