Geopolitics

Meta's attempt to acquire AI startup Manus has been met with a firm 'no' from Beijing, highlighting the surreal new reality where software is treated as sovereign territory.

When the remote revolution meets the Axis of Evil, the result is a surprisingly productive senior developer with a very complicated tax return.

A look at the curious new trend of nations treating high-end silicon with the same reverence as gold bars, and the bureaucratic headaches that follow.

As global tensions simmer, Palantir finds itself in the enviable position of being the only software company whose quarterly earnings are best predicted by a map of international flashpoints.

As Polymarket records half a billion dollars in trades on the timing of military strikes, we explore the charming efficiency of turning international conflict into a high-yield asset class.

In a move that combines the idealism of the 1960s with the cold, hard logic of a GPU cluster, Washington has unveiled the 'Tech Corps'—a diplomatic mission to ensure the world's AI speaks with a distinctly American accent.