UPDATE: Oil Market Fragmentation Deepens as AI Cold War Escalates Just TWO DAYS after we broke the story of unprecedented global oil market fragmentation among major suppliers, a STUNNING new development has emerged—the very same geopolitical tensions fracturing energy markets are now consuming academic AI exchanges between superpowers. Multiple sources confirm that delayed corrections and retractions in the AI research community mask a far darker reality: China and the United States are weaponizing scientific collaboration itself, using academic channels as proxy battlegrounds that threaten to splinter the entire global supply chain ecosystem. This is NOT coincidence—the oil fragmentation and AI corridor collapse are two visible symptoms of a systemic decoupling that insiders have been warning about for WEEKS.