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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by tomComb on Sunday July 05, 2026 @09:18PM (#48799706)
I don’t know the specifics of this case, but in Canada, calls like this (all wrapped up in the flag), usually come from Canadian companies hoping for some sort of sole sourced contract that they have no business getting.

So so perhaps we should be excluding American companies at this time, but in the name of competition and openness, we should allow bids from our real allies, such as the Europeans or the Asians.

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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by ronsor on Sunday July 05, 2026 @10:15PM (#48799982)
"America or not" is a red herring. Palantir is the specific problem.

The kind of people running these companies don't have true allegiance to anything but their own objectives. If necessary, they'd move all operations to Europe or East Asia in a month, and you'd have "Palantir 2" under a different name with no better ethics or privacy.

Increased emphasis has to be on running things domestically with on-premises hardware. As long as the vendor is elsewhere and not subject to oversight, the risks remain.

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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by soupbowl on Sunday July 05, 2026 @10:14PM (#48799973)
Excluding China, I hope.
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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by singpolyma3 on Sunday July 05, 2026 @10:27PM (#48800041)
Why?
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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by soupbowl on Sunday July 05, 2026 @10:53PM (#48800171)
Because they are a communist country aligned with Russia.
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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by Georgelemental on Sunday July 05, 2026 @11:29PM (#48800351)
China is more capitalist than the USA these days
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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by soupbowl on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @10:48AM (#48818632)
Yes, The Communist Party of China does indeed do some capitalistic things as well as communist things.
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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by protocolture on Monday July 06, 2026 @12:37AM (#48800688)
China is the most sensible current superpower. They are barely communist at all since Deng and have a better recent track record in terms of maintaining global trade. And at least in recent years they are probably the least worst super power in terms of imprisoning minorities.

Oh and Premier Xi lives under your bed.

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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by ronsor on Monday July 06, 2026 @01:21AM (#48800908)
> least worst super power in terms of imprisoning minorities

It's amazing how fast everyone forgot about Xinjiang. These things don't stop simply because journalists get bored.

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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by protocolture on Monday July 06, 2026 @02:36AM (#48801331)
>It's amazing how fast everyone forgot about Xinjiang. These things don't stop simply because journalists get bored.

Havent forgotten. Its not that China got better, its that its competitors got worse.

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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by graemep on Monday July 06, 2026 @05:43AM (#48802559)
Worse to the level of Xinjian?
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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by pphysch on Monday July 06, 2026 @11:13AM (#48805807)
The recent real war crimes of the US-Israeli entity are only comparable to the fake war crimes they conveniently accuse their opponents of while carrying out the real war crimes.

For example, it's okay to butcher 160 Iranian school girls because Iran just butchered 100,000 innocent protestors in a single day (trust me bro).

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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by pphysch on Monday July 06, 2026 @02:53AM (#48801431)
What do you think happened in Xinjiang?
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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by soupbowl on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @10:48AM (#48818620)
China is a communist country doing plenty of bad stuff, stop shilling. Winnie the Pooh does hide under my bed though.
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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by dogcomplex on Monday July 06, 2026 @12:38AM (#48800695)
Been a whole lot longer since their last genocide
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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by inemesitaffia on Monday July 06, 2026 @03:46AM (#48801776)
There's an ongoing one
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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by gmerc on Monday July 06, 2026 @05:20AM (#48802413)
Gaza? That’s the other ally
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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by inemesitaffia on Monday July 06, 2026 @11:38PM (#48813421)
We're talking about the middle Kingdom here
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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by graemep on Monday July 06, 2026 @05:20AM (#48802417)
They are no longer communist. Its state controlled capitalism with a tendency to personality cult, racism, and the destruction of minorities and the systematic destruction of minority cultures.
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Re:Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret ... by soupbowl on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @10:47AM (#48818613)
They are run by 'The Communist Party of China' and they certainly act communist, stop shilling.
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