“Can China and the United States overcome the so-called Thucydides Trap and create a new paradigm of major-country relations?”
That question is not neutral. It is not diplomatic small talk. It is a frame. And once you understand the frame, the entire relationship, and everything that comes out of Beijing this week looks very different.
Recently the United Arab Emirates (UAE) did something that would have seemed almost unthinkable a year ago. After 59 years of membership – since Abu Dhabi joined the cartel in 1967 – the UAE announced it is leaving OPEC, effective May 1.
Read MoreCerebras Systems. Founded in 2015 in Sunnyvale, California, Cerebras was built by a team of semiconductor veterans – several of whom held senior engineering roles at AMD, Nvidia’s biggest GPU rival. From day one, they set out to solve a problem that had been quietly frustrating the AI world for years: standard chips, no matter how powerful, are small. AI models are enormous. And making thousands of small chips talk to each other quickly enough to train or run a cutting-edge model is messy, expensive, and slow.
Their answer wasn’t to make a better version of what already existed. It was to throw out the rulebook entirely.
The AI chip boom isn’t going to be slowed down by electricity. It’s going to be slowed down by ABF substrate. The chips exist. The demand exists. The data centres are being built. But if there isn’t enough ABF substrate to package those chips, they simply don’t ship.
Read MoreFor the first time in more than 50 years, humans are travelling beyond Earth orbit – looping around the Moon and heading back home. NASA’s Artemis program has officially left Earth, with astronauts aboard Artemis II already executing a lunar flyby and setting distance records never seen since the Apollo era. Now, while the world is focused on the spectacle – the images, the milestones, the emotion – something quieter is building on the ground: A potential IPO from SpaceX that could ride this wave of excitement straight into the public markets.
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