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Digital Realty survey finds infrastructure is now the main AI deployment constraintAmong 2,131 respondents across 19 countries, 40% identified specialised infrastructure as their primary AI constraint, up from 9% in 2024. The survey also found that 86% are pursuing sovereign AI initiatives and more than half host AI workloads in private clouds.→Lenovo and MemryX agree to expand sovereign edge AI deployments in Saudi ArabiaMemryX and Lenovo announced an MOU on 15 September, building on joint edge-AI deployments already operating in the Kingdom. The companies will pursue additional sovereign AI opportunities and explore rack-scale infrastructure aligned with Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030.→Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign definitive transatlantic sovereign-AI dealCohere and Aleph Alpha announced a definitive business-combination agreement on 16 September, following an earlier plan to combine. The proposed company would be headquartered across Toronto and Berlin, retain Aleph Alpha's Heidelberg research centre and target sovereign deployments with partners including Germany's STACKIT.→Bell plans a 1.2-gigawatt sovereign AI hub in SaskatchewanBell and the Government of Saskatchewan announced a non-binding agreement to add up to 900 megawatts of capacity to Bell AI Fabric, creating a path to a 1.2-gigawatt AI infrastructure hub. The project is expected to involve more than $50 billion in capital investment and a new Bell AI Fabric headquarters in Saskatchewan.→OPAQUE publishes Weight Custody Manifest for governed on-premises model deploymentWeight Custody Manifest ties key release to signed conditions covering model identity, licensing, jurisdiction, approved software and custody requirements. The preview includes a published specification, reference library and 91 public tests, with support for revocation and tracking fine-tuned derivatives to parent models.→India and Sweden deepen cooperation on sovereign and industrial AIThe cooperation is being pursued under the Sweden-India Transformative Innovation and Climate Action partnership. The two sides identified possible pilots, co-development and broader partnerships, but did not announce a binding commercial or procurement agreement.→Vietnam approves a national AI strategy through 2030 with a 2045 visionVietnam approved a National Strategy on AI through 2030 with a vision to 2045, the government said on 29 August. The plan calls for investment in AI skills, data and models, compute infrastructure, domestic R&D, broad sector adoption and safe, trustworthy governance.→Mistral and HUMAIN plan a sovereign-AI stack for Saudi ArabiaThe plan includes frontier Arabic models, cybersecurity and voice work, use of HUMAIN data-centre infrastructure, and joint sales into regulated sectors. The companies describe investment in the hundreds of millions of euros, but the announcement represents a planned collaboration rather than an already deployed regional stack.→Chinese AI models gain traction among African businessesNigeria-based Curacel has added GLM-5.3 to its model mix while retaining Western systems for more demanding reasoning and reliability-sensitive work. The examples show procurement decisions becoming more pluralistic as model providers compete globally.→