Open weights are not open minds: the neural net cosplay
Open-weight models are sold as more open than API models. A neural net is billions of opaque floats either way. Open mostly means run it yourself — usually on NVIDIA, sometimes the Ascend bet.
The 3DN network comes to life — Berlin PolitiCap edge is born
Melodrama with a hostname: 3DN’s European infrastructure just drew breath. berlin.germany.politicap.eu is live on a node in Germany. Managed hosting, digital sovereignty, and trading soon to follow.
Regional ECN edge for PolitiCap Bangkok — wire, proxy, policy
How 3DN runs a PolitiCap regional ECN at bangkok.thailand.politicap.eu: load-balancer web proxy, Go node binary, Redis cache, and server-imposed content policy with accounts on the apex.
DeepSeek returns on Huawei iron — we told you the bus was the story
DeepSeek’s new model generation, tuned for Huawei Ascend, is the software half of the NVLink-vs-open-bus fork. How likely is Chinese hardware independence? High for a sovereign inference lane; contested at the deepest manufacturing layers.
