For years, the global AI race has been measured by who builds the most powerful models, the fastest chips, or the smartest AI assistants. That competition has now entered a new phase. Instead of competing only in technology, countries are beginning to compete over who writes the rules of AI. This week, China took one … Read more
Here’s the uncomfortable truth buried inside two new research papers: our best tools for predicting sea level rise are already out of date. Not because scientists have been careless, but because the ice is doing things we didn’t know to look for. The two studies, published this week in Nature Communications and Science Advances respectively, … Read more
One month into the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, Washington’s closest allies in the Indo-Pacific are raising urgent alarms: America’s focus on containing China is being hollowed out by the demands of a distant war. The latest diplomatic signal came on Saturday when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. … Read more
For nearly three weeks, Operation Epic Fury has been an aerial and naval campaign: precision strikes, drone swarms, and missile barrages hammering Iranian military sites, leadership targets, and infrastructure. Launched February 28, 2026, the U.S.-Israeli operation has already claimed over 7,000+ strikes, destroyed much of Iran’s navy and missile production, and inflicted heavy casualties—while keeping … Read more
Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, introduced the AI Guardrails Act on Tuesday, March 17, 2026 — a concise five-page bill that would impose strict statutory limits on the Department of Defense’s use of artificial intelligence in military operations. Wisdom Imbibe Insight:The AI Guardrails Act signals a critical turning … Read more
The U.S. Forest Service officially transferred more than 2,400 acres of the Tonto National Forest — including the sacred site known as Oak Flat (Chi’chil Biłdagoteel) — to Resolution Copper on Monday, March 16, 2026. The land swap clears the way for what could become one of the largest copper mines in North America, jointly … Read more
Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael delivered a blistering public attack on Anthropic Thursday, March 12, 2026, declaring that the company’s Claude AI models would “pollute” the defense supply chain due to embedded “policy preferences.” His comments on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” represent the sharpest official rebuke yet from a senior defense leader amid the escalating … Read more
Joe Rogan, one of the most influential voices in conservative-leaning media and a vocal endorser of Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign, has delivered a sharp public rebuke of the president’s ongoing military campaign against Iran. On the March 10, 2026 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan described the conflict—now in its second week—as … Read more
President Donald Trump announced on March 3, 2026, via Truth Social that he has directed the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to immediately offer political risk insurance and financial guarantees for all maritime trade—especially energy shipments—transiting the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz. He described the coverage as available “at a very reasonable price” … Read more
Operation Epic Fury—the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran—has entered its fourth day with an intense and expansive air and missile assault that has already struck more than 1,250 targets across the country. Launched in the early hours of February 28, 2026, the operation achieved one of its most dramatic early successes with the targeted … Read more