1+ week, 3+ day ago   (311+ words) Review: A Book as Big as the War 1942: Crux of War, Jonathan Parshall, Oxford University Press, 1,280 pp., $45, June 2026 As Winston Churchill said after British church bells rang for the first time after victory at El Alamein in November 1942, “This is…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (478+ words) Argument: Scientists Saved Us From Catastrophic Risk Before In 2026, the convergence of artificial intelligence and biotechnology poses a similar existential threat—and demands a similar response. In June, AI industry leaders warned that AI could erode the knowledge barriers that…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (543+ words) Argument: The U.S. and China Don’t Need an AI Grand Bargain Of course, any bilateral agreement must recognize the powerful incentives for governments and companies on both sides to continue competing against each other. But even within this environment, each country…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (385+ words) Analysis: Beijing and Washington Can Build AI Safety Despite Mutual Distrust If this renewed dialogue is to succeed, then both governments need to move quickly and approach it with a clear sense of purpose. A similar consensus is emerging in…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (525+ words) Analysis: China Is Trying to Make AI Work for Health Care China’s efforts to embed artificial intelligence across industries, which it calls its “AI+ plan,” has generated plenty of fanfare, and much of it is justified. For China, AI is…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (539+ words) Q&A: Why Are Yields on U.S. Treasury Bonds Rising? Your all-access pass to FP Prefer to listen? To hear this entire conversation, and more episodes in the weeks ahead, follow Ones and Tooze wherever you get your podcasts. Why exactly are…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (353+ words) Argument: Yes, We’re in an AI Bubble. Just Look to 1980s Japan. When the artificial intelligence sector’s overwhelmingly dominant chipmaker, Nvidia, announced quarterly results this week, many took this as a reason for confidence in the economic future of AI. Not…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (360+ words) Argument: The U.K. Is Falling for Palantir’s Salesmanship Donald Campbell, the director of advocacy at Foxglove, describes Palantir’s model as being able to arrive cheap or free, learn the system, and then make itself hard to remove, a “land and expand…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (704+ words) Analysis: The U.S. Bond Crisis Highlights a Deeper Fiscal Rot U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in a move befitting the most economically interventionist U.S. administration in half a century, announced his intention Wednesday to intervene to artificially cap runaway yields on U.S. government debt....

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (88+ words) Analysis: China’s New Laws Are Ensnaring Western Companies In all three cases, Chinese regulations exacerbated the risks of running into conflicts between Western and Chinese law for companies operating in China, with Chinese counterparties, or with Chinese-controlled data and supply…...