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When Fear Becomes a Moat: Is the AI Industry Fighting Its Own Commoditisation ?
Everyone is asking whether frontier AI is becoming too powerful. But the bigger question may be whether AI companies are fighting something more threatening: becoming ordinary. The Anthropic debate reveals a deeper battle around strategic FOMO, infrastructure positioning and who will capture value in the AI economy.
Eastern Legacy
Jun 143 min read


Pourquoi Mistral devrait racheter SFR
Et si l’avenir de l’IA européenne dépendait moins des modèles que de la capacité à opérer l’intelligence via réseaux, cloud et infrastructures ?
Eastern Legacy
Jun 145 min read


Rachat de SFR : pourquoi le vrai débat n’est pas la concentration, mais la concurrence productive
Le rachat de SFR révèle une question stratégique majeure pour l’Europe : comment préserver la concurrence tout en reconstruisant la capacité industrielle nécessaire pour financer les infrastructures numériques de demain ?
Eastern Legacy
Jun 113 min read


Quantum Computing: The Next Infrastructure Race for Compute Power and Digital Trust
The quantum race is not only a race to build more powerful computers.
Microsoft’s Majorana announcement is a signal of a broader transformation: after artificial intelligence exposed the strategic importance of compute infrastructure, quantum computing is emerging as the next frontier of digital power.
The future will likely not be quantum replacing classical computing, but quantum extending AI, cloud and high-performance computing ecosystems.
The real competition is expan
Eastern Legacy
Jun 107 min read


From Platforms to Governed How the Digital Services Act Is Rewriting the Political Economy of the Digital Ecosystem
The European Commission’s €200 million fine against Temu under the Digital Services Act (DSA) is not fundamentally an ecommerce story. Nor is it simply another chapter in the long-running debate around platform accountability. What the case reveals is something structurally deeper: the emergence of a new model of digital governance in which large online platforms are increasingly treated not as private technology companies alone, but as systemic infrastructures whose architec
Eastern Legacy
May 317 min read


From National Citizenship to Platform Citizenship: The Next Governance Battle of the AI Era
For centuries, citizenship was primarily defined by geography, institutions, and sovereignty. A person belonged to a nation-state, and that state provided the legal, economic, and institutional framework through which society functioned. Governments issued identities, protected rights, regulated commerce, and organised public trust. Digitalisation is beginning to alter that relationship in ways that are still poorly understood. Not because technology companies are replacing
Eastern Legacy
May 174 min read


Why OpenAI and Anthropic are moving into Enterprise Services? Part1
For nearly three years, the AI race was framed primarily as a competition between models. Who had the best benchmark scores? Who released the most capable chatbot? Who raised the most capital? Who secured the largest GPU clusters? But the latest moves from OpenAI and Anthropic suggest something much deeper is now underway. The frontier AI battle is no longer only about models. It is becoming a battle for control of the enterprise operating layer. Recent reports indicate that
Eastern Legacy
May 103 min read


The Rise of Sovereign-Scale Private Infrastructure
The recent viral discussions surrounding Elon Musk’s reported compensation structure at SpaceX triggered the predictable cycle of reactions: fascination, disbelief, admiration, criticism. Yet focusing on the compensation narrative itself risks missing the far more important transformation unfolding underneath. The real story is not Mars. Nor is it simply another example of Silicon Valley spectacle. The deeper signal is that SpaceX increasingly appears to be evolving into some
Eastern Legacy
May 104 min read


Why La Banque Postale × Mistral AI Deal Signals the Rise of Sovereign Enterprise AI
Digital Pulse - A digital news strategically decrypted for IT leaders by Eastern Legacy La Banque Postale announced a three-year strategic partnership with Mistral AI to deploy generative AI capabilities across the bank’s operations. The initiative is particularly notable because the AI models and associated infrastructure will be deployed in an on-premise and sovereign environment within the bank’s own infrastructure ecosystem rather than relying exclusively on external hype
Eastern Legacy
May 73 min read


Kenya’s Data Centre Setback - a lesson in the AI Value Chain
The reported stalling of Kenya’s $1 billion Microsoft-G42 data centre project is more than a local infrastructure story. It is a window into one of the most important realities of the AI era: artificial intelligence is not only a software revolution. It is an infrastructure race. In 2024, Microsoft and G42 announced a major digital ecosystem initiative in Kenya. The package included a green data centre, a new Azure East Africa cloud region, local-language AI research, AI skil
Eastern Legacy
May 76 min read
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