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What you own, no one can switch off.

Short notes on the moves that matter for sovereign, self-hosted document AI: open models, data ownership, and the cost of renting your stack.

• 2026-06-12

  Fable 5: from launch to worldwide shutdown in 76 hours

  Anthropic released its most powerful model, then a government order took it offline worldwide three days later. The clearest case yet for AI you own.

• 2026-06-12

  Google publishes the Open Knowledge Format (OKF)

  A vendor-neutral standard for AI knowledge: markdown files with YAML frontmatter. Exactly what pdf2okf produces. Own your format, too.

• 2026-04-02

  Gemma 4 is here, and now Apache 2.0

  Google's most capable open model is now Apache-2.0 licensed: a state-of-the-art model you can run fully offline, on hardware you own.