The US government has had access to all the data collected by the US BigTech for a long time, and now even more with AI. This is most definitely a digital sovereignty problem.

> You essentially pay for intelligence twice, once with money, and again with something even more valuable: the proprietary knowledge you must reveal to make that intelligence useful.

Coming from a company that has made a business out of collecting the proprietary knowledge their users must reveal to use their services, I think it has value.

> Nadella argues that if AI companies get to freely scrape the internet to train their models, it’s only fair that enterprises get to study — or “distill” — those models in return.

I totally agree with that. My hope is that open models (distilled from proprietary models if needed, I don't mind) will be accessible enough to have real competition on the services. It should be possible for a company to use an AI based in their jurisdiction instead of leaking all their data to the US or China.

"Nadella argues that if AI companies get to freely scrape the internet to train their models, it’s only fair that enterprises get to study — or “distill” — those models in return."

Two wrongs don't make one right