Essays about artificial intelligence, geopolitics, infrastructure control, and technology power dynamics.
I followed a single headline about Ukraine’s drone fleet expecting a standard defense brief. What I found instead was a ledger. The more I pulled on the thread, the less it looked like a story and more like a supply chain: covert procurement channels, battlefield data pipelines, venture capital disguised as aid, and an entire … Read more
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
Executive summary Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Israel are racing to become the Middle East’s primary AI hubs because AI is now central to economic diversification, regime security, military power, and regional influence in a US–China–dominated technology system.[cite:4][cite:43] All three are trying to secure compute, talent, and data, position themselves as indispensable … Read more
From Kyiv datarooms to $50B VC bets — why “battle-proven” is now the ultimate valuation multiplier. In July 2025, a German drone startup didn’t send engineers to a desert proving ground. They uploaded code to a secure dataroom in Kyiv, watched their AI-guided platform fly a live mission, and pushed a software patch before the … Read more
Israel’s AI Revolution — Part 4 NSO’s Reinvention In January 2026, NSO Group released a new transparency report. The company said it was entering “a new phase of accountability.” The document gave away almost nothing: fewer disclosures than in prior years, no customer numbers, no country names, no meaningful account of investigations into misuse. It … Read more