AI’s Hard-Power Week: Military Orders, Mega-Rounds, Cloud Builds
Tuesday, June 9, 2026 · 12 min
Trump’s NSPM-11 orders faster military AI adoption as Washington tightens controls on frontier models, while Moonshot’s $30 billion target and SK Telecom’s Nvidia buildout show the capital-and-compute race accelerating across China and Korea.
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Trump’s NSPM-11 orders faster military AI adoption as Washington tightens controls on frontier models, while Moonshot’s $30 billion target and SK Telecom’s Nvidia buildout show the capital-and-compute race accelerating across China and Korea.
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