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The article discusses the impending fragmentation of large language models (LLMs) due to geopolitical and cultural factors, the shift from chatbots to autonomous agents, and the rise of sovereign AI systems like China's DeepSeek and India's Sarvam. This fragmentation leads to competing cognitive ecosystems with varying biases and governance frameworks.

The University of Minnesota, Morris, first U.S. public university to use on-site wind turbines, now has two turbines named Bert and Ernie that generate more power than the campus consumes.