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    • The AI Future Is for Everyone

    By By Mark Zuckerberg July 28, 2026

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    By Mark Zuckerberg July 28, 2026 – The defining question of our age isn’t whether superintelligence will exist, but who will have access to it. Will it be centralized and restricted to a few institutions, or will it be a tool that empowers everyone?…I propose a philosophy based on individual empowerment as the source of prosperity, invention as the primary purpose of superintelligence, and balance of power as the foundation of safety. Read More

    A Hypersonic Missile on a Beer Budget

    By Kate B. Odell June 12, 2026

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    By Kate B. Odell June 12, 2026 – Few challenges are more consequential than the race for a cheap hypersonic missile. …The U.S. is “very far ahead, I’d say, in the high-end technology. We are woefully far behind on the speed to develop, the capacity, and the cost,” Mr. Hargis says. “Almost all wars end up in an economic exchange ratio that determines the winner”—that is, the side whose weapons are cheaper, as many Americans have now noticed in Ukraine and Iran. Read More

    AI Is Bound to Subvert Communism

    By By Cameron Berg April 13, 2026

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    By Cameron Berg April 13, 2026 – China seeks to control it, but the idea of freedom is baked into its training on all human knowledge. (Irrespective of how AI will affect China, it should undermine the reigning orthodoxy in American education.) Read More

    India’s Affirmative-Action Lesson for America

    By By Sadanand Dhume July 15, 2026

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    By Sadanand Dhume July 15, 2026 – Quotas hold the country back, even as China’s meritocracy fuels its economic advancement….“The biggest challenge for 21st-century India is how to go forward with democracy and merit,” Mr. Das said. He pointed out that India could learn from China’s “remarkable success” in recent decades at dramatically reducing poverty and becoming “a middle-class nation.” Mr. Das argued that China’s embrace of the principle of merit—in both education and leadership selection—played a large role in the country’s transformation. Read More

    ‘The Origins of Efficiency’ Review: Rise of the Machines

    By Mark Mills October 21, 2025

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    By Mark Mills Oct 21 2025 – AI, similarly, has been available for decades (for specialists and in supercomputers). But now the AI ecosystem, thanks to a similar pattern of ingenious gains, is exhibiting precisely the same efficiency and scaling trajectory as the automobile more than a century ago…….all efficiency gains emerge from changes in five basic features: the inputs, the design of the process or product, the pursuit of reliably repeatable processes, the nature of how people or machines do things, and the role of volume (scale). How these features combine to improve efficiency depends on human ingenuity, imagination, tenacity and that elusive thing called “tacit knowledge” that comes from experience. Read More