AI-Geopolitics

Russia’s AI Supply Chain and the Architecture of Its Development Partnerships Russia entered the artificial-intelligence era with the rhetorical ambition of a great power. Its National AI Development Strategy, adopted by presidential decree in October 2019 and substantially revised in 2024, pledges to raise AI’s contribution to Russian GDP to eleven trillion rubles by 2030 … Read more

Russia’s playing its own game in developing and integrating AI. Its strongest capabilities lie in applied, state-backed, and dual-use AI systems rather than in creating globally leading foundation models or in the compute ecosystems required to sustain frontier research at scale. The core pattern is strategic adaptation rather than frontier leadership. Russian institutions are trying … Read more

My article, “U.S.–Gulf Trades for AI Expansion,” was about more than sovereign wealth, datacenters, or regional tech ambition. Underneath all of that, it was about relocation—physical, legal, and political. On the surface, the piece describes a new bargain. The United States brings the stack: chips, models, cloud ecosystems, and the regulatory power that comes with … Read more

Compute is the new oil, and the Gulf is learning how to pump it. The emerging U.S.–Gulf AI relationship is not just a story about sovereign wealth diversifying into tech. It is a bargain in which Washington trades access to frontier compute for something it increasingly lacks at home: vast, controllable power, land for hyperscale … Read more

At 2 a.m. this morning, I realized why my multi-LLM setup feels so familiar. It’s because I’m using team leadership skills with LLMs. That made me think this may be one of the missing skills in AI adoption right now. People keep looking for the perfect prompt, the perfect framework, or the perfect agent stack. … Read more