Comment by Riaz Haq on July 25, 2026 at 10:48am

@kejimao

Instead of making Chinese AI sound scary, "AI communism" may even make it more attractive.

Why is the attempt to extract super-profits through proprietary, closed-source systems destined to fail? Because the world is increasingly operating on socialist, if not communist, principles.

Wall Street tycoons, Silicon Valley tech bros, and Pentagon arms merchants still cling to the illusion that seizing a handful of critical nodes will grant them mastery over the entire architecture.

The reality is precisely the opposite: capturing one node merely triggers systemic reconfiguration. The network reroutes around the occupied point, rendering it an island.

https://x.com/kejimao/status/2081015581285962071?s=61&t=mgTxrmI...

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@D162Michele

What the fuck is ‘AI communism’?
Is that suppose to make Chinese AI sound scary? Pathetic!

https://x.com/d162michele/status/2080944378164445617?s=61&t=mgT...

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The above X posts are in response to Daily Telegraph’s headline

Xi’s ‘AI communism’ sparks new era for Made in China
Beijing’s tech companies have motored to within touching distance of US counterparts

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/07/25/xis-ai-communism-sp...

Note: Daily Telegraph is a right-wing British newspaper owned by a self-professed pro-Israel German publisher Axel Springer SE

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Axel Springer requires its employees to support Israel's right to exist as part of its core corporate values, leading to internal newsroom friction over editorial independence. The policy is anchored in the company's official "Essentials" guidelines.Corporate Policy DetailsCore Value: Supporting the right of existence of the State of Israel and opposing antisemitism is listed as the second of five non-negotiable company principles.Additional Principles: The guidelines also mandate support for freedom, democracy, the trans-Atlantic alliance, and a free-market economy.Leadership Stance: CEO Mathias Döpfner stated that these values are foundational to the company's identity, telling editorial staff at subsidiaries like Politico that employees who cannot embrace these principles should find work elsewhere.

Comment by Riaz Haq on July 27, 2026 at 4:32pm

Pakistan Launches National AI Initiative With Seven Hubs, 560 Startup Slots and Seed Grants.
Pakistan has launched the National Artificial Intelligence Advancement Initiative to establish seven AI hubs nationwide, incubate 560 startups over two years, and provide non-dilutive seed grants to 150 founders.

https://www.techjuice.pk/pakistan-ai-hubs-560-startups-naai-initiat...

Comment by Riaz Haq on July 27, 2026 at 8:01pm

AI-enabled public governance

Pakistan’s National AI Policy 2025 aims to make AI part of public governance by 2035, powering e-governance, health, taxation and education—while tackling privacy, cybersecurity and skills gaps.

https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2026/07/27/ai-enabled-public-gover...

Pakistan has taken a proactive step in its AI agenda with the formulation of the National Artificial Intelligence Policy 2025. It seeks to create an inclusive and ethical AI environment and establish Pakistan as an AI hub for the region by 2035.

Pakistan has also initiated digitalization, e-governance, e-health, e-education, and public–private partnerships in the wake of Vision 2025 and the Digital Pakistan Policy 2018. Public services, healthcare, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Higher Education, Research, etc., are increasingly driven by the use of AI and are associated with programs like the National Center of Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) and the Sino-Pak Center for Artificial Intelligence (SPCAI).

Artificial Intelligence will be a game-changer in Pakistan's governance and economy, said Federal Minister Ahsan Iqbal. The government has ambitions to further develop AI-based digital infrastructure, with the development of Quantum Valley, National Innovation Fund, and evidence-based AI planning. By 2027, AI usage should be implemented in a core ministry task at least, with transparency, data privacy, fairness and ethical usage.

The government wants to use AI to boost the quality of education, health care, trade, research, and public administration, as part of its vision to propel the country to a $1 trillion economy by 2035. The federal government has suggested a big National AI Ecosystem Development Program with an estimated cost of Rs. 283 billion but received Just Rs. 1 Billion in New Budget.

Pakistan is taking incremental steps towards incorporating AI into public governance, as seen in various applications like identity verification, tax administration, healthcare, and public service delivery. AI systems at NADRA and the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) have increased the efficiency of service, minimized fraud, and improved tax compliance.

AI-supported telemedicine is making healthcare more accessible in under-served regions. The National AI Policy 2025 outlines a detailed six pillar roadmap that emphasizes innovation, skill development, secure AI, infrastructure, sectoral transformation, and international cooperation, and sets ambitious targets like training one million individuals, setting up a National AI Fund, and establishing AI Centers of Excellence. Also, at the federal level, Pakistan is building an AI-powered digital governance platform to enhance coordination, transparency, accountability, and service delivery among ministries and the Prime Minister's Office.

Pakistan is far behind in the Government AI Readiness Index, 92nd position, whereas countries like the USA (1st), China (17th) and India (32nd) are ahead. Even with the strides made, Pakistan has some hurdles to overcome in the public sector to make AI more widely adopted. However, there are a number of challenges in the way of the mainstreaming of AI in the public sector in Pakistan. The issue of cybersecurity and data privacy is also significant, with the potential for a breach to halt the entire AI system.

Pakistan's public sector must not lag behind the global AI revolution. According to PwC Pakistan (2025), the cost of lack of AI adoption in the public sector is estimated to be up to $7 billion for Pakistan by 2030.

Pakistan as lagging in the global digital economy, impacting its competitiveness, its ability to attract investment, and its very capacity to govern effectively in an increasingly complex world. One survey conducted by UNDP Pakistan in 2024 revealed that only 12% of government officials had undergone any formal training in AI principles or applications relevant to public administration.

Comment by Riaz Haq on July 27, 2026 at 8:07pm

Pakistan's Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT) unveiled the National Artificial Intelligence Advancement Initiative (NAAI) to . [1]

Core Goals and Structure

• Seven AI Hubs: Planned for Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta, Muzaffarabad, and Gilgit.

• Startup Support: Aims to incubate 560 AI-driven startups and provide non-dilutive seed grants to 150 of them.

• Ecosystem Integration: Unites academia, industry, researchers, and investors under a single national framework to advance the National AI Policy. [1]

Comment by Riaz Haq on July 31, 2026 at 4:13pm

@Azure

Kimi K3 is now available on Microsoft Foundry through Fireworks AI. It's a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model from Moonshot AI with a 1 million-token context window.

Learn more: msft.it/6017a62c1

https://x.com/azure/status/2083206048999932225?s=46&t=Uy6jyUH6D...

Comment by Riaz Haq on July 31, 2026 at 4:30pm

@ThomasUnise

A lot of people on X crying that China is “dumping” cheap open-weight models like Kimi, GLM, and DeepSeek into the US market to destroy American AI.

Honestly… good!

This isn’t steel, EVs, solar panels, or manufacturing jobs.

This threatens a few of billion-dollar API companies hellbent on power, not the jobs of working class Americans.

Chinese “dumping” LLMs means cheaper models, local ownership, private deployment, unlimited usage and frontier intelligence in the hands of startups, researchers and ordinary people/businesses.

If that results in OpenAI and Anthropic losing pricing power while everyone else gains access to better technology, oh well.

Thats capitalism bb.


https://x.com/thomasunise/status/2083209938533265623?s=46&t=Uy6...

Comment by Riaz Haq on July 31, 2026 at 5:01pm

AI’s Control Problem: Agents, Costs and Robots

AI is moving from answering questions to taking action, and the bills are arriving faster than anyone budgeted for. An agent that spins up thousands of other agents can turn a $20 task into a $50,000 one, and companies are starting to scale into bankruptcy. The fight now isn't over how smart these systems are. It's over who controls what they do and what they cost.

Deirdre Bosa talks with three executives at the center of that shift:
» Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco, on rogue agents, guardrails and why autonomous systems need a kill switch.
» Lin Qiao, co-founder and CEO of Fireworks AI, on inference economics and whether efficiency can keep AI businesses solvent.
» Evan Beard, co-founder and CEO of Standard Bots, on the U.S.-China robot gap — 300,000 deployed to our 30,000 — and what it costs to lose the next platform.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
1:00 Is AI's easy-money era over?
4:43 Cisco President Jeetu Patel
21:20 Fireworks AI CEO Lin Qiao
37:59 Standard Bots CEO Evan Beard

Anchor and columnist: Deirdre Bosa
Produced by: Jasmine Wu
Editing by: Michael Hoyt
Technical Associate: Sami Savona
Senior Director of Video: Jeniece Pettitt
Additional Footage: Getty Images

https://youtu.be/tvZimMnCwyE?is=yVj_ivahFmtsVh2y

Comment by Riaz Haq on August 4, 2026 at 10:49am

HealthRanger
@HealthRanger
DeepSeek is so affordable, it almost doesn't even show up on the chart.

I'm using it daily. It's astonishingly good. And it's a fraction of the price of U.S. frontier models.

Plus, it's a lot less censored and has far fewer guardrails, making it more usable. It answers questions instead of lecturing you all day.

https://x.com/HealthRanger/status/2084523575331975450?s=20

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Hedgie
@HedgieMarkets
🦔DeepSeek released its V4 Flash coding model on Friday at $0.28 per million output tokens. Claude Opus 4.8 charges $25 for the same output. That's a 99% discount, and V4 Flash debuted ahead of Opus 4.8 on http://Arena.ai's front-end coding leaderboard. OpenAI followed with an 80% cut to GPT-5.6 Luna just three weeks after launch. Google shipped three efficiency-focused Gemini Flash models. xAI dropped Grok 4.5 at Luna's old price. Meta went closed-source with Muse Spark 1.1 priced aggressively for developers. Only Anthropic held premium pricing.

My Take
Hyperscalers plan to spend $700 billion in 2026 on the infrastructure to run models like these, and the models themselves are already commoditized. Prices collapse faster than any commodity cycle I can think of. Oil, memory chips, and solar panels never dropped 99% in six months during any of their busts. The capex is priced like it builds a moat while the output is priced like it builds a graveyard. That combination doesn't work in any industry cycle I've watched.

Anthropic is holding out on price for now, but I don't think they can hold that line forever if DeepSeek and the flash models keep closing the capability gap. Everyone else torches cash on subsidized inference and hopes volume shows up before the bill does. Altman told Invest Like the Best that OpenAI's plan is enough usage to make thin margins work. That's the airline industry pitch, and airlines have gone bankrupt on that pitch for fifty years. If Qualcomm is right that intelligent routers become standard, where software picks the cheapest good-enough model for each task, then no lab commands pricing power and $700 billion of capex has to earn its return from a market that pays like electricity. I don't see how the numbers work.

https://x.com/HedgieMarkets/status/2084412496795119795?s=20

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Alvin Foo
@alvinfoo
DeepSeek’s bar on that Bloomberg chart is so flat it looks like a rounding error.

Chinese labs are shipping frontier-level models at prices that make GPT-5.6 and Claude look like luxury goods. This isn’t just competition, it’s a full-on price war that’s turning the API market into a death zone for anyone still charging Western rates.

https://x.com/alvinfoo/status/2084546219330904322?s=20

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Andrew Curran
@AndrewCurran_
At first I thought Bloomberg forgot to add DeepSeek's pricing to the chart.

https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2084509003384827970?s=20

Comment by Riaz Haq 17 hours ago

Pakistan Building A Digital And Green Future - OpEd - Eurasia Review

https://www.eurasiareview.com/10082026-pakistan-building-a-digital-...

By Dr. Hamza Khan

Pakistan’s youth bulge and three concurrent transitions—digital export growth, decentralised solar power, and data-driven agriculture—create an opportunity to link these sectors into a single, higher-productivity development model.
ICT exports and freelancing are already generating multi-billion-dollar inflows and a trade surplus, while rapid solar expansion (now supplying a majority of low-carbon power) can cut costs for firms and farms if storage, grids and pricing keep pace.
Agri-tech focused on water efficiency, satellite intelligence and inclusive digital platforms can raise farm incomes and resilience, but success depends on institutions that turn parallel gains into a connected system rather than isolated privileges.


Pakistan’s development debate is often trapped between crisis management and distant promises. A better reading of the country in 2026 is that three transitions are already underway: services are becoming digitally exportable, electricity is becoming decentralised and low-carbon, and agriculture is acquiring a data layer. The 2023 national census confirms an overwhelmingly young society, with roughly three-fifths of citizens below 25. That youth bulge can become either an employment burden or the workforce of a new production model.

The opportunity is not to celebrate IT, solar power and agri-tech separately, but to connect them. Digital exports can ease Pakistan’s foreign-exchange constraint; distributed energy can reduce costs for firms and farms; and data-driven agriculture can raise productivity while conserving water. According to the Pakistan Economic Survey’s technology chapter, Pakistan had 207.22 million telecom subscriptions and 160.9 million broadband connections by March 2026. The latest technology-export figures show receipts reaching approximately US$4.18 billion during July-May, FY2025-26, about 20 percent higher year on year, with US$373 million earned in May.

Digital Exports: Moving Beyond Low-Cost Labour
Technology is no longer peripheral. The Economic Survey records 34,420 registered IT and IT-enabled-services companies by March 2026. ICT exports produced a US$2.91 billion trade surplus during July-March, 86 percent of sectoral receipts, while verified technology-related freelancer inflows reached US$856.3 million in nine months and exceeded US$1 billion by May. This transaction-based figure is more defensible than broader US$1.6 billion estimates that may include additional categories.



Pakistan must now move freelancers and software houses from one-off assignments towards recurring contracts in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud services, gaming, fintech and business-process engineering. DigiSkills has delivered more than 5.51 million trainings, but scale must be matched by recognised certification, communication skills, intellectual-property protection and dependable connectivity. The Digital Nation Pakistan Act 2025provides a framework for digital public infrastructure and data governance. Its value will depend on whether firms can securely verify identities, receive payments, obtain credit and access public services efficiently.

Comment by Riaz Haq 17 hours ago

Pakistan Building A Digital And Green Future - OpEd - Eurasia Review

https://www.eurasiareview.com/10082026-pakistan-building-a-digital-...

By Dr. Hamza Khan

Solar Power as Industrial Policy
Pakistan’s solar expansion is among the world’s most striking bottom-up energy transitions. A REN21 assessment estimated that net-metered rooftop capacity reached 5.3 GW by April 2025, nearly ten times its level two years earlier. Ember’s latest country dataindicate that low-carbon sources supplied 55 percent of Pakistan’s electricity in 2025. The recommended scenario in the IGCEP 2025-35 projects renewables, including hydropower, producing 69 percent of electricity by 2034-35, with solar and wind supplying 10 percent each.



Solarisation should be treated as industrial policy, not simply climate policy. Affordable daytime electricity can power software campuses, cold chains, food processing, electric mobility and small manufacturing. The danger is a two-tier system in which affluent consumers leave the grid while poorer households inherit fixed capacity costs. Pakistan needs storage, stronger distribution networks, time-of-use pricing and incentives for productive daytime demand. The transition will last only if it lowers economy-wide costs rather than shifting them between consumers. Pakistan’s own generation plan warns that after 2027, thermal plants alone may be unable to manage the ramping pressures created by rising solar integration, strengthening the case for battery storage and grid modernisation.

Agri-Tech: The Critical Convergence Test
The FY2025-26 agriculture survey reports that agriculture contributed 23.44 percent of GDP and grew by 2.89 percent. Yet surface-water availability was 92 million acre-feet, 11.1 percent below average system usage. Agri-tech must therefore focus on resource productivity, not fashionable hardware. Satellite crop intelligence, moisture sensors, weather forecasting, precision fertiliser use, digital marketplaces and solar-powered cold storage can reduce waste and improve margins. Solar irrigation, however, must be paired with groundwater monitoring or cheaper pumping could accelerate aquifer depletion.



The National Agri Stack roadmap offers an architecture based on verified farmer identities, integrated land data, satellite intelligence, digital payments, credit, crop insurance and market links. Three to four pilots were prioritised for the first 12-18 months. Inclusion will be decisive: tenant farmers, women, sharecroppers and farmers without clear land titles must not disappear from a system built around formal records. Success should mean higher incomes, lower post-harvest losses, improved water efficiency and faster finance, not merely more registered users.

From Parallel Successes to One Production System
Pakistan can create a circular development model: digitally skilled workers generate export income; renewable power lowers production costs; and digital platforms help agriculture use energy, water, finance and logistics more efficiently. This convergence can narrow the urban-rural divide because software, payments, advisory services and distributed electricity can reach places where large industrial investment may not. It also offers Pakistan a new export identity, one based not only on goods produced domestically, but on knowledge, digitally enabled services and climate-smart agricultural value chains.



The country is not guaranteed a digital and green future; it must build the institutions that make one possible. That requires stable internet, competitive energy markets, interoperable public data, cybersecurity, technical education, patient capital and transparent regulation. Pakistan’s most promising transformation is not any single sector, but a connected system in which code earns foreign exchange, clean power reduces vulnerability and intelligence applied to farms strengthens food security. The future will be secured when digital capability and green infrastructure become instruments of mass productivity rather than islands of privilege.

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