News around Ukraine
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Fusion’s Grand Ambition Now Rests on ‘Extreme Plumbing’
Fusion energy has long been the technology of the perpetual future, famously always “50 years away.” That timeline hasn’t stopped billions of dollars from flooding into the sector recently, fueled partly by the insatiable energy demands of artificial intelligence. According to Matt O’Dowd, host of PBS Space Time, the skepticism might finally be misplaced. The…
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Sam Harris: American Right Consumed by ‘Fever Swamp’ of Conspiracy
The American conservative movement is no longer merely fractured; it is devouring itself from the inside out. In a searing analysis of the current political landscape, author and neuroscientist Sam Harris argues that the Republican Party has descended into a “fever swamp” of conspiracy theories where the most extreme elements now dictate the terms of…
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Echoes of 1914: Why the Cold War Analogy Fails to Explain China
Washington’s fixation on the Cold War is obscuring a far more dangerous historical parallel in the escalating rivalry between the United States and China. In a recent interview with Foreign Affairs, historian Odd Arne Westad argued that the current geopolitical landscape resembles the brittle, interconnected world of the early 20th century more than the bipolar…
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Shapiro: Trump’s ‘Audacious’ Extraction of Maduro Humiliates Russia and Restores Deterrence
Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro called the U.S. military extraction of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro an “audacious” geopolitical gamble that exposed the limits of Russian defense capabilities in the region. In a special broadcast analyzing “Operation Absolute Resolve,” Shapiro broke down the logistics of the raid. Some 150 warplanes, including B-1 bombers capable of carrying…
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From Parkour to Production: Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Joins the Assembly Line
Deep inside a sprawling auto plant near Savannah, Georgia, the future of manual labor is stretching its legs. In a back corner of the Hyundai factory, far from the traditional robotic arms bolted to the assembly line, a machine named Atlas is learning to move parts. It stands 5-foot-9, weighs 200 pounds, and walks on…
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Zeihan: US Flying Blind Into Geopolitical Abyss
The United States is careening toward a geopolitical precipice without a map, a driver, or a working steering wheel. That is the assessment of geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan, who argues the country lacks the institutional memory or political coherence to navigate the coming decade. A Demographic Reckoning Fundamental economic shifts are upending Washington’s international calculus.…
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Trump Turns Gaze to 2026 Anniversary as ‘Moscow Chill’ Settles Over Washington
President Donald Trump enters the second year of his return to power with his eyes fixed on a singular opportunity: the nation’s 250th anniversary. For a leader who prioritizes spectacle, the semiquincentennial in 2026 offers the ultimate stage. Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, told Foreign Policy that the…
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The Code Editor Is Dying: AI Turns Engineers into Orchestrators
When Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted last March that artificial intelligence would write nearly all software code within a year, the tech world scoffed. It sounded like a typical executive overpromise, detached from the gritty reality of software engineering. But nine months later, the laughter has died down. Boris Cherny, the developer spearheading Anthropic’s Claude…
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‘No Dark GPUs’: Why the AI Boom Is Not a Dot-Com Echo
Investors fearing that the trillion-dollar artificial intelligence buildout echoes the turn-of-the-century dot-com crash are looking at the wrong metrics. Gavin Baker, managing partner at Atreides Management, argued that unlike the telecommunications glut of 2000, the current demand for AI compute is tangible, immediate, and arguably under-supplied. Speaking with Andreessen Horowitz general partner David George, Baker…
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Palmer Luckey: China, Not Ethics, Drove Silicon Valley from the Pentagon
Palmer Luckey has a theory about why Silicon Valley turned its back on the Pentagon. It isn’t about pacifist engineers. It’s about market access in Beijing. In an interview with investor Joe Lonsdale, the Anduril Industries founder argued that the schism between American technology companies and the US military is a historical anomaly caused by…