We welcome Kazakhstan to Pax Silica. 🇺🇸🇰🇿 @UnderSecE Helberg was proud to sign the Pax Silica Declaration alongside Kazakhstan's Deputy Prime Minister @Zhaslan_Madiyev. Strategic connectivity. Critical minerals. Digital infrastructure and AI. These aren't just capabilities — they're the building blocks of economic sovereignty.

At the second Pax Silica Summit, @UnderSecE Helberg convened interagency partners, government officials, and U.S. industry leaders to secure supply chains and build the industries of the future with those who share our values.

The US plans to tell dozens of nations they must pick sides in its AI race with China, Reuters reports. The US won 35 signatories to the AI Opportunity Statement for cooperation on AI models, and dozens of nations to the Pax Silica supply chain resilience initiative. China responded by launching the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization to promote open-weight AI models. Kazakhstan is the only nation so far to have joined both initiatives, a nation potentially rich in critical minerals needed by the US side. #semiconductors# #AI#

The U.S is about to force countries to pick a side in the AI race. Washington’s drafting letters telling partners: if you join China’s new AI coalition, you’re out of America’s Pax Silica group. No more playing both sides. Kazakhstan already signed up for both, and that set off alarm bells. The message is pretty blunt: “To be part of everything is to be part of nothing.” Source: CNA / Writer: Lynn

SITUATION DETECTED: The U.S. is preparing to tell dozens of countries they must choose a side in the AI competition with China. Those that join Beijing’s AI framework will be excluded from the U.S. led Pax Silica initiative, according to an internal draft letter seen by Reuters.

U.S. PUSHES ALLIES TO CHOOSE SIDES IN AI RACE Washington is preparing to warn partner countries against joining competing Chinese AI initiatives, according to Reuters. Countries aligned with the U.S.-led Pax Silica framework could risk exclusion if they also participate in Beijing’s coalition. The strategy aims to secure AI chips, models and critical-mineral supply chains as Chinese open-weight models gain ground against U.S. rivals.

Great meeting with Philippine President Marcos to reaffirm our shared commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific. From the South China Sea to Pax Silica and the Luzon Economic Corridor, the U.S.-Philippine Alliance makes both our countries stronger, safer, and more prosperous.