by Aseem Gupta | Dec 13, 2025 | Technology, AI & Complex Systems
The Trillion-Dollar Question OpenAI earned approximately $13 billion in revenue in 2025. Around the same time, Sam Altman was describing plans for 30 gigawatts of artificial intelligence computing capacity requiring roughly $1.4 trillion of investment. Put those...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 30, 2025 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
Donald Trump does not simply claim to be a president who prefers peace. He presents himself as a uniquely effective peacemaker: the leader who can enter conflicts that have defeated conventional diplomats, threaten or charm the participants into agreement, and...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 15, 2025 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
Inside many electric vehicles is a motor capable of turning electrical energy into immediate, almost silent acceleration. Buried inside that motor may be a small collection of permanent magnets containing rare-earth elements such as neodymium and praseodymium....
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 2, 2025 | Political Theory, Governance & Ideology
In January 2009, Barack Obama entered the White House promising to change how power worked in Washington. One of his targets was the revolving door between government and private industry. Officials, he argued, should not be able to shape public policy, leave...
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 12, 2025 | Environment, Resources & Physical Geography
When the Sea Disappeared From Moynaq The ships are still there. Their hulls rise from the sand outside Moynaq, rusted and hollow, as though an ocean had withdrawn overnight and forgotten to take them. Seashells lie scattered beneath their keels. Beyond them, the...
