https://jvq.net/tags/osint/ Recent content in Osint on JVQ.net: Just Very Quick Hugo en-us Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jvq.net/what-was-still-open-at-the-end-of-the-week/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jvq.net/what-was-still-open-at-the-end-of-the-week/ <p>Second pass through the same pile, different tabs. No argument here either — just the things that stayed open after everything else got closed.</p> <p>Start with the money that didn&rsquo;t arrive. <a href="https://osint.org/deepseek-pauses-its-1-5-billion-second-round-the-leaked-liang-transcript-and-chinas-compute-gap/">DeepSeek pausing its $1.5 billion second round</a> days before signature is the sort of event that gets read as a funding story and is really a compute story, and the leaked transcript is where the actual information sits. Set that against the state-level version of the same problem: <a href="https://osint.org/chinas-bid-for-an-alternative-ai-order-waico-open-models-and-5000-training-slots-for-developing-countries/">twenty-nine signatures on the WAICO founding agreement in Shanghai</a>, open weights offered as an alternative to chips nobody can buy. One of those is a company running short of hardware. The other is a country building an institution around the shortage.</p>