Source and letter: the US plans to tell 35 partner countries they'll be excluded from the US-led Pax Silica initiative if they also join China's rival framework
THE SO WHAT
AI governance is hardening into blocs—access to US-led AI ecosystems may now come with explicit alignment conditions. Multinationals need a country-by-country AI strategy and should assume that model access, data flows, and compliance regimes could diverge sharply between US- and China-aligned markets.
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