Could AI Produce a Corporate Feudal Order
How platform power, AI infrastructure, private payment ecosystems, and weak fiscal capacity could push advanced capitalism toward something that resembles a new medievalism without ever fully becoming one Executive Summary The strongest version of the “corporate feudalism” thesis is not…
AI Nationalization and State Control
Executive summary The practical policy question is no longer whether governments will literally own AI companies. It is whether states will control the strategic chokepoints of AI: the chips, data centers, cloud clusters, safety evaluations, model releases, procurement rules, export…
Claude Mythos and the New Cybersecurity Balance
When Anthropic unveiled Claude Mythos Preview on April 7, it did more than announce a powerful new model. It effectively told governments, banks, cloud providers and software maintainers that a threshold had been crossed: frontier AI had become good enough at vulnerability…
Stargate Project Takes Off: A Groundbreaking AI Infrastructure Initiative
On January 23, 2025, global technology leader SoftBank Group and AI pioneer OpenAI officially announced the launch of their joint venture, “Stargate,” aimed at building next-generation AI infrastructure. With a total investment of $38 billion (approximately ¥5.94 trillion), this monumental…
National Initiatives and Strategic Shifts: Saudi Arabia
In the past week, Saudi Arabia has unveiled significant national initiatives and strategic shifts to position itself as a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and technology. 1. Launch of a $100 Billion AI Initiative 2. Partnership with Google Cloud…





























