Compute Isn't the Constraint
After When the API Gets Switched Off went up, Bram De Buyser, an old friend, wrote back and put his finger on a line of thought I’d neglected. The …
Sovereignty
When the API Gets Switched Off
On 13 June, Anthropic disabled Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer outside the United States. Not deprecated, not rate-limited, but disabled. US …
What It Actually Takes to Fine-Tune an LLM in Europe
This series has so far dealt with deployment. Where to host models, how to wrap them in compliance logic, which providers can serve inference, and how to verify …
Securing the Open Source AI Supply Chain
This is the fourth post in a series on European AI sovereignty. I have covered why jurisdiction matters, how to handle UK-EU regulatory divergence in code, and …
A Practical Guide to the European Sovereign Inference Stack
I wrote previously about why jurisdiction matters for European AI platforms and then about how to handle the UK-EU compliance split in code. Those posts covered …
Building AI Platforms Under European Sovereignty
The Problem Is Not Capability# Most conversations about European AI start with benchmarks: parameter counts, the gap between Mistral and GPT-4, how far behind …