Defining Digital Sovereignty: Scope, Meaning, and Limits The term has been captured. This definition takes it back. Digital sovereignty is the most consequential term in technology policy, and it has no working definition. What circulates instead are approximations calibrated to the interests of the actors who wrote them: vendor-aligned framings that stop short of testing […]

DeepSeek just disclosed that its production inference cluster can generate up to $38 per GPU per hour under theoretical maximum conditions, processing 155 trillion tokens daily across what it calls a “full-link” optimised stack. These are the first numbers of this kind any frontier AI lab has published.

Brazil built the strongest platform regulatory framework outside the EU. The Marco Civil da Internet. The LGPD. A Supreme Court ruling in June 2025 expanding platform liability. Executive decrees effective July 2026 imposing content moderation and transparency obligations. A dedicated electoral court with enforcement powers and the willingness to use them.

None of it was enough.

For one afternoon the world ran the same experiment on every government at once. Two remote code execution flaws in the PHP interpreter, the software behind roughly seventy per cent of the public web, were disclosed on the same day to every jurisdiction, with the same install base exposed and the same patch arriving from the same volunteers. The threat was held constant across all of them, so what the event actually tested was the response, and the response was misread almost immediately.

Last week, a researcher reverse-engineered their own Samsung TV after noticing targeted ads that matched private conversations. They found automatic content recognition capturing the screen every 500 milliseconds, data fingerprinted with household and device identifiers, and flows to Samsung’s advertising network and its data partners, including Experian’s identity records covering 128 million US households. Samsung has now faced lawsuits in both Texas and California over these practices.