artificial intelligence
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The Anxiety of a Hegemon – Why America Cannot Stop Saying It Is Still Ahead
The ritualistic declarations of continued primacy reveal a deeper structural crisis that no amount of reassurance can conceal Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The most revealing aspect of contemporary American discourse about China is not the substance of the claims but the frequency and ritualistic character of their repetition. For decades, the United States was… Continue reading
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AI Won’t Kill You. The People Selling It Might.
Why the warnings of existential risk from artificial intelligence serve the interests of the firms that issue them, and how the real harms of algorithmic governance are already being inflicted on populations that possess no means of resistance Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The claim that executives of leading artificial intelligence firms have experienced a… Continue reading
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The Imported Genius
How America’s AI Revolution Relies on Chinese Talent and Why That Dependency May Prove Unsustainable The United States’ artificial intelligence boom, celebrated as a triumph of American innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, rests on a foundation that is far less homegrown than official narratives suggest. A comprehensive analysis by the Paulson Institute’s MacroPolo think tank reveals… Continue reading
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The Capture of Knowledge
How Wikipedia’s Transformation Into an Establishment Mouthpiece Is Poisoning the Well of Artificial Intelligence Editorial Analysis | August 2026 The American philosopher and internet pioneer Larry Sanger, who served as editor-in-chief of Nupedia and co-founded Wikipedia in 2001, has issued a damning assessment of the project he helped bring into existence. Twenty-five years after coining… Continue reading
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The New Alexandrian Book Burning – How AI Labs Are Pulping the Human Record
The systematic destruction of physical books for artificial intelligence training represents an unprecedented assault on humanity’s cultural inheritance, sanctioned by courts and executed at industrial scale The development of artificial intelligence has required vast quantities of human-produced text, and the methods by which technology companies have acquired this material have attracted increasing scrutiny as the… Continue reading
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Big Tech Is Borrowing Hundreds of Billions to Bet on AI – And the Bet Isn’t Paying Off (Yet)
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta and Oracle are borrowing at an unprecedented rate to fund AI infrastructure, even as memory prices climb and the revenue to justify the spending remains unproven Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Oracle built their market value over two decades on a specific financial identity, cash-generative software businesses that required comparatively little… Continue reading
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The Reckoning of Artificial Intelligence
Debt, Delusion, and the Coming Tech Depression Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Venture Capital, Hyperscalers, Corporate Debt, Semiconductor Industry, US Defence Budget, Technology Policy, Financial Risk For the better part of a decade, the technology industry has presented itself as the engine of modernity and economic growth. Its leading firms were celebrated as paragons of efficiency, generating… Continue reading
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The AI Spending Trap
How the largest capital expenditure programme in corporate history is being financed by debt rather than profit, sustained by narrative rather than demonstrated returns, and protected from scrutiny by a geopolitical strategy that punishes governments which attempt to build economies around public benefit rather than private accumulation This paper examines three interlocking phenomena that together… Continue reading
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The Choke Point Doctrine
How American economic and military pressure now targets the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Malacca, the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar, and the Arctic passages The headline video below is circulating on social media under the title “It’s Not Chaos. It’s The Blueprint” argues that the seemingly disconnected crises in… Continue reading
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DeepSeek and the End of American AI Cost Dominance
How DeepSeek exposed the economic weakness inside high-cost American artificial intelligence systems DeepSeek released a lower-cost artificial intelligence model that approaches the performance range of leading American systems while operating at a fraction of the reported price. Reported token pricing places DeepSeek near $3.48 per million output tokens, while comparable frontier systems from OpenAI and… Continue reading
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