Tungsten prices have surged by more than 550%, exposing a hidden vulnerability at the heart of the AI economy. As China tightens control over critical minerals, the race for artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming a race for the materials beneath modern technology.
Industry
Industrial systems and corporate dynamics shaping production, innovation and the structural evolution of the US economy.
Europe’s new technology strategy is not about decoupling from the United States. It is about becoming indispensable within the infrastructures, supply chains and innovation ecosystems that underpin the digital economy, reshaping the future of transatlantic technological cooperation and resilience.
As robots become more capable, the most important questions may no longer be technological. This article explores how societies can balance automation, human responsibility and meaning in a future increasingly shaped by intelligent machines and autonomous systems.
Artificial intelligence may be advancing rapidly, but robotics is revealing a deeper reality: intelligence becomes far more complicated once it enters the physical world. The Limits of Machine Intelligence explores why machines still struggle with embodiment, energy, uncertainty and the messy complexity of reality itself.
Artificial intelligence is evolving into a new infrastructure layer beneath the global economy. This article explores how compute, cloud systems, semiconductors and sovereign AI are reshaping geopolitical competition between the United States, China and the emerging autonomous world order.
Artificial intelligence is beginning to move beyond screens and software into warehouses, robotics and industrial systems. This article explores how embodied AI could transform logistics, infrastructure, manufacturing and the future relationship between humans and machines.
