Losing the Technological Lead - Vox Popoli

 The US government is badly mishandling the way AI is developed and utilized, and has already just about ensured that China will soon secure leadership in the AI arena:

Chinese models have held above 30% of the platform’s enterprise token volume every week since February 8, peaking at 46% in June. US-origin models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have collectively fallen to 35.7%. DeepSeek commands 17.6% of routed tokens as the platform’s single largest vendor, and Alibaba’s Qwen follows at 13.9%.....

https://voxday.net/2026/07/13/losing-the-technological-lead/ 

....One of the things that is absolutely maddening about the way Western governments operate is that they regard taxation and regulation as being their primary priorities, thereby forcing productive and innovative people and organizations to waste a tremendous amount of time on unproductive activities as well as degrading the capabilities of their products in order to comply with government concerns.

The suspension of Fable – which I quite literally cannot even use due to my Athos skill settings – is a perfect example of the costs this imposes on US businesses. The problem isn’t just that the new advanced model wasn’t available for a limited period of time, it is that everyone now recognizes that reliable future access to it and newer models can no longer be assured.

Which, of course, is why we will be crowdfunding our Castalia AI project very soon. The team is established, we’re already on version 4.5 of the build document, and a lot of people have contacted me or posted on SG to confirm they will be strongly supporting this project.