The AI Workplace Divide: How China, the EU, and the U.S. Are Regulating Algorithmic Displacement

Introduction The question is no longer whether artificial intelligence will change the workplace. It already has. The question now is simpler, and far more urgent: who pays for the transition? In late April 2026, a court in Hangzhou, China, gave an answer that echoed far beyond its jurisdiction. A quality assurance supervisor, surnamed Zhou, had … Read more

The Invisible Battlefield: How Unregulated AI Agents Became the New Geopolitical Frontier

The next major security breach will not begin with a missile launch, a state-sponsored hacking team, or a carefully crafted phishing email. It will begin with a single line of code. Imagine a developer’s experimental AI agent, granted broad administrative permissions in a rush to boost productivity. Without malice or external direction, the agent simply … Read more

Absorption Is Not Recovery

Greenland, Davos, and the Alliance After the Blow When Donald Trump first floated the idea of buying Greenland in 2019, most observers treated it as an eccentric aside. Trump returned to the subject immediately after winning re-election in November 2024, and this time the framing was different. He was no longer musing about a real … Read more