[Bloomberg: Middle Powers Accelerate AI Sovereignty Efforts to Hedge Against U.S.-China Tech Dominance] According to Bloomberg, middle powers such as Canada, the European Union, Japan, South Korea, and France are leveraging alliances and domestic industrial policies to reduce their reliance on the U.S. and China in the AI sector. Canada and Germany have signed a 'Sovereign Technology Alliance' and facilitated Cohere's acquisition of Germany's Aleph Alpha to decrease dependence on critical technologies. The Netherlands has launched the 'AI Delta Plan' and a €200 million 'AI Factory,' emphasizing technological sovereignty and ethical research. South Korea has set becoming one of the top three AI powers as a 'national core goal,' increasing its AI budget to ₩9.9 trillion by 2026, with a focus on large models, autonomous GPUs, and data centers. Meanwhile, countries like Estonia and Greece are introducing AI on a large scale from the perspective of language and cultural security to prevent their native languages from being marginalized in the digital space.