The Software Iron Curtain Exposed: How China’s 2026 AI Export Talks Could Fracture the Global Intelligence Stack For the past 18 months, the most powerful play in global AI wasn’t ChatGPT. It was free. DeepSeek R1, released as open-source in early 2025, sent Silicon Valley into documented panic. Qwen climbed to the top of Hugging Face download rankings and stayed there for months. GLM-5.2 drew dir...