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Geopolitics
Alphabet’s AI Pivot Is Building a Moat
The company’s “full-stack” AI advantage and lower-cost TPUs help Google Cloud scale, with revenue up 34% to $15.2 billion and backlog at $155 billion.
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Strategic Non-Alignment Yields Economic Rents Amid 7% Fragmentation Risk
BRICS+ now controls 35% of global GDP at purchasing power parity compared to 30% for the G7, creating a structural arbitrage window for non-aligned states to capture premiums from both blocs.
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How Midstream Dominance Shapes Energy and Critical Mineral Markets
AI, electrification, and grid expansion need far more minerals than current systems can supply, locking in bottlenecks and a friend-shoring premium.
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The Resource Cold War Maps Energy and Rare Earth Bottlenecks
Energy and critical minerals have become instruments of state power, and the bottleneck sits in refining, not mining.
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