Recent Sci Fi Nov about sentient robots

[Ken]

Hey folks, I read a novel just a year or two ago, starts with a couple of intelligent but non-sentient mining robots on an asteroid. They have a dispute about which of their companies owns a particular patch of the asteroid. Each one tries to guess what the other will do by modeling the other's mind, then modeling how the other one will model their mind, and so on into an infinite loop of modeling their own and the others mind, when they both suddenly achieve sentience.

Racking my brain trying to remember the author and title.

[David]

Here's an interesting topic for debate. Is it possible to be intelligent whilst non-sentient?

[Anna]

David, if you want to discuss that, please start a new thread in the Chat folder.

edit: David's thread is here

[Chris]

Was it The Corporation Wars Trilogy?

[Ken]

That's it! Thanks you.