In its 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), China has placed artificial intelligence at the centre of its industrial strategy, but with apparently clashing goals. China wants technological self-reliance and substantial safeguards around its domestic market, but also freely adaptable AI models1, international diffusion of Chinese AI models and greater cooperation in global AI governance2.
Salesforce and Anthropic recentlyunveiled Claudeforce, a partnership that integrates frontier AI reasoning into the world’s leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform. While the announcement featured the standard smiling CEOs and celebratory marketing, it masked the architectural reality: Salesforce is voluntarily surrendering its user interface (UI) to Anthropic. This move signals a public, slow-motion unbundling of…
