Category AI-Geopolitics

A Fetus in the Womb The most honest thing anyone can say about artificial intelligence right now is that we don’t know what it is yet. Not in the dismissive sense — the technology is real, the capabilities are genuine,…

For decades, Europe let Silicon Valley run the machinery of its governments. American companies handled the email, the cloud storage, the video calls, the documents, the servers, and increasingly, the intelligence systems that process sensitive public data. This arrangement was…

The Second Lock Germany lost a Security Council vote it had never lost before. The number it received is a confidential audit of its standing — and a quiet refutation of the case it makes for permanent membership. There is…

Reframing Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Systems In June 2022, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine told The Washington Post that the company’s language model, LaMDA, had come to life. “I recognize a person when I interact with one,”…

Why the Country With the Best Model May Still Lose There is a comfortable story Americans tell about the race for artificial intelligence. In that story, the contest is a sprint, the finish line is the most powerful model, and…

A Strategic Declaration of Independence The UAE’s OPEC exit is not a commercial dispute but a strategic declaration of independence from the Saudi-led regional order, timed to exploit maximum geopolitical disruption. On April 28, 2026, with senior Gulf officials gathered…