When Norway's largest newspaper published a cartoon of India's Prime Minister as a snake charmer, the world debated racism and press freedom. The more consequential question, what happens when that image enters AI training data, went unasked. Aftenposten drew India's Prime Minister as a snake charmer, flute in hand, with a fuel pipeline rising from the basket like a cobra. The accompanying piece, by journalist Frank Rossavik, was intended as commentary on India's energy diplo

Washington has largely framed the AI race as a battle over semiconductors, export controls, and computing power. Beijing framed it differently: as a question of access, development, and AI as a “public good," then built a global distribution strategy around that message. That distinction matters far more than many Western leaders realize. For years, the global conversation around Artificial Intelligence centered on chips, frontier models, sanctions, and who could build the mo

The logo showed what the town already knew. A pine tree. Fields. A barn. The year it was made a town. It should have been simple. But it was not.