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China’s rejection of Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of agentic AI startup Manus is not merely a regulatory footnote. It is a strategic declaration—one that signals AI...
An opinion and policy analysis for audiences of the Financial Times, The Economist, and Foreign Affairs The Regulatory Ambush Nobody Planned For In late April 2026,...
Traders of oil futures are a famously sunny bunch. On April 17th, after Iran’s foreign minister declared the Strait of Hormuz “completely open,” the price of...
The Venetian convention hall in Las Vegas does not usually feel like a battlefield. But on April 22, 2026, when Thomas Kurian walked onto the Google...
A fourteen-day state of emergency on a nine-island atoll 4,000 kilometres from the nearest refinery is not a curiosity of geography. It is the first dispatch...
Every decade or so, a headline announces that the petrodollar is dying. Every decade, the dollar proves those headlines wrong. The reason is simple, and it...
The US-Israel-Iran conflict has exposed a structural fault line beneath the Gulf’s gilded markets. What investors called safe havens are now ground zero for the most...
The Bank’s landmark 2026 report is a significant intellectual evolution—but it is no blank cheque for state intervention. A careful reading reveals something more interesting, and...
The call came, as these things often do, without warning. A seasoned equity partner at one of the Big Four — two decades of late nights,...
On Thursday, April 24, 2026, two of the world’s most powerful technology companies delivered remarkably similar messages to their workforces, framed in the polished bureaucratic language...