The AI Economy Still Has a Connectivity Floor
Billions remain offline or poorly connected, making affordability, skills and dependable networks foundational constraints on the promised benefits of artificial intelligence.
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Critical Minerals Have Become the Small Inputs With System-Level Consequences
A new global minerals outlook shows how concentrated refining, export controls and weak investment are turning small material inputs into major economic-security risks.
Humanoid Robots Are Leaving the Demo Floor
Humanoid robotics is entering a more demanding phase, where reliability and economics matter more than spectacle.
AI’s Next Constraint Is Not Intelligence. It Is Power.
The artificial intelligence race is becoming an energy strategy, and infrastructure choices will increasingly define who can scale.
The Semiconductor Map Is Becoming a Political Map
Chips sit at the centre of industrial policy, national security, and the global competition to control critical capacity.