October’s spotlight on Big Tech and Authoritarianism explored a range of relationships between tech companies and political actors across the global majority.
The growing importance of subsea cables in military and economic policy offers an entrypoint into understanding the corrosive, yet dependent, relationship between AI and oil infrastructure
The U.S. and Iran supplied 86% of military drones exported in 2022–2025, mostly to opposite sides of the Ukraine war, while Türkiye had the most customers.
