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Should all countries launch their own LLMs?

While you might know beautiful Chile for its copper, its wines, its pisco-fight with Peru, or its ridiculously long and skinny profile like it’s spooning Argentina (nena, wake up), there’s now a new reason: Chile just launched Latin America’s own large language model.  Creatively named LatAm-GPT, the idea is to “develop capabilities in the region […]

Economics 12 February, 2026
The geopolitics of the Winter Olympics

Italy’s Winter Olympics opening ceremony kicks off in just a few hours, meaning we’ll soon burn our evenings watching snowboarders called ‘Tanner’ and ‘Yui’ pull sick Frontside Double Cork 1080 Lien-to-Melon Reverts. But it also means that, as with any event bringing the world together, geopolitics is now in the air (doing a sick Frontside […]

Geopolitics 6 February, 2026
Three elections we’re watching

Remember 2024? Us neither. But we are reliably told it was the world’s biggest-ever electoral year, with a majority of eligible voters invited to the polls. It felt like the new world order was being decided. And in many ways, that’s exactly what happened. But 2026 is shaping up to be another historic electoral year […]

East Asia & The Pacific 5 February, 2026
The last US-Russia nuclear pact ends tomorrow

Some things are good to let expire — like your ✌️free✌️ LinkedIn Premium trial, or that Salesforce subscription sending you breathless 2am emails about Q4 pipeline hygiene. But what about the last remaining nuclear treaty between the two powers still sitting on ~90% of the world’s nukes? That’s what happens tomorrow (Thursday), when the US-Russia […]

Defence & Security 4 February, 2026