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The Geometry of Governance: On Intelligence, Chips and Charters
Days after Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on 9 June, the U.S. Commerce Department placed both models under export controls on national-security grounds. The order required Anthropic to restrict access by foreign nationals, i...
The Citizenship Hearing: On Fandom, Footbullies, and Forensics
International football asks players to perform one of the strangest forms of modern citizenship. For most of the year, nationality is an inheritance: a passport, an anthem, a shirt worn without much interrogation. During a World Cup, it bec...
The Geography of Grievances: On Power and Paranoia on the Pitch
Nicolas de Staël - The Parc of Princes (1952)
Peter Frankopan wrote recently that the World Cup is a history lesson in disguise, empire, migration and power are legible in every squad list. It is an insightful thought, albeit incomp...
On Constitutions, Checks and Confessionals: How an AI's soul bares our own
In May 2026, Pope Leo XIV signed his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on “safeguarding the human person in the age of artificial intelligence.” This week, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic and the closest thing the AI industry has to...
The Patrons’ Paradox: Art and Power in the Gulf at War
Since I last wrote about the Gulf creative scene, the unfolding is there for everyone to see. The third Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennial opened in late January with seventy-plus artists and over twenty new commissions, under the title In I...
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