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By Rafal Rohozinski
In April 2026 the model briefly topping the open-weight leaderboards was not ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. It was Kimi K2.6, from a Beijing start-up most Western officials could not name, let alone pronounce. It is free to...
by Robert Muggah
In the new geography of power, minerals have become instruments of statecraft. The scramble for graphite, lithium, titanium and rare earths is no longer a specialist concern of geologists and commodity traders. It is a tes...
Brazil and Canada have the minerals the world needs. The harder task is controlling what happens after they leave the ground
by Robert Muggah
The world's shocks are arriving together. Its institutions are not built for that.
by Robert Muggah
How the weaponisation of Western finance is building the alternative financial system that will outlast it
By Rafal Rohozinski
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