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The Board · Verdict CardFeb 18, 2026
Technology

AI Knowledge Drain: OpenAI Warning and the Geopolitics of

Analysis of how DeepSeek-V3 exposed the AI cost gap, training at 5.6M vs GPT-4 at 63-100M, and why OpenAI warned Congress about model distillation as a national

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