Threading the Needle

Forging a Pax Silica

Can the Western alliance be rebuilt on techno-strategical leverage?

Dec 17 • Anton Leicht

Anthropic Against Itself

The frontier AI lab can be a neutral authority, a policy advocate, or a political renegade. But it can no longer be all three.

Dec 5 • Anton Leicht

November 2025

The Night Before Preemption

Three dynamics to watch as the fighting begins

Nov 26 • Anton Leicht

How To Grow Too Big To Fail

When AI developers overplay their strategic indispensability, they risk undermining pro-AI policy writ large

Nov 19 • Anton Leicht

AI & Jobs: Leverage without Labor

Would humans flourish under full automation?

Nov 5 • Anton Leicht

October 2025

When Should Nations Sell Their Data?

Service economies might have to treat data as a strategic asset beyond privacy politics

Oct 29 • Anton Leicht

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The Future of AI Export Deals

AI developers can build moats by making country-level exports work for everyone

Oct 23

The Devil You Know

A second look at the tech right

Oct 16 • Anton Leicht

A Preemption Deal Worth Making

Making the best of borrowed time

Oct 8 • Anton Leicht

AI & Child Safety: Against Narrow Solutions

How to navigate a political forcing function

Oct 1 • Anton Leicht

September 2025

Making American AI Export Promotion Work

How to sell the American stack to an uninformed world

Sep 24 • Anton Leicht

A Strategic Case for H20 Chip Exports

Retracing the argument for exporting inference capacity

Sep 17 • Anton Leicht

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