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Subsea cables are artificial intelligence’s massive vulnerability as they face escalating dangers in a changing geopolitical world

1 month ago | afr.com | Jared Cohen

Jared CohenMar 19, 2025 – 12.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The artificial intelligence-powered economy has a massive vulnerability: the ocean. The digital world is connected by subsea cables, a roughly 750,000-mile (1,207,008-kilometre) network that could circle the globe 30 times.
Subsea Cables Are AI's Massive Vulnerability

2 months ago | foreignpolicy.com | Jared Cohen

The artificial intelligence-powered economy has a massive vulnerability: the ocean. The digital world is connected by subsea cables, a roughly 750,000-mile network that could circle the globe 30 times. Laid as deep as five miles below the surface, these cords make daily life—and the global marketplace—possible.
The AI Economy’s Massive Vulnerability

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Jared Cohen

2 hours agoEurope’s New Reality: Trump May Not Quit NATO, but He’s Already Undercutting ItIn his first term, President Trump episodically threatened to pull out of NATO, removing the United States as the linchpin of the most successful military alliance in modern times. In his second term, he is trying a different approach: hollowing it out from within. Mr. Trump’s decision to reverse …NowHow To Start Using AI Agents To Transform Your BusinessI’m calling it now—2025 is the year of the AI agent.
Geopolitical Risk in a Trump 2.0 World

Nov 7, 2024 | foreignpolicy.com | Dana Sherne |Ian Bremmer |Jared Cohen

Between conflicts, the climate crisis, and trade wars, the world was already in a state of turmoil. How will a second Trump term change the status quo? What countries and industries are in for the greatest shake-up? Join FP’s Ravi Agrawal in conversation with geopolitical risk expert Ian Bremmer, the founder and president of Eurasia Group. Name Email Question Thanks.
The Next AI Debate Is About Geopolitics

Oct 29, 2024 | almendron.com | Jared Cohen

Where industrial revolutions happen can reshape global affairs. Britain’s Industrial Revolution made London the center of an empire upon which the sun never set. The digital age took off in Silicon Valley, making the United States home to world-leading technology companies. But if AI leads to the next industrial revolution, that revolution will have been global from the beginning.
5 Rules for Companies Navigating Geopolitical Volatility

Oct 28, 2024 | hbr.org | Jared Cohen

Geopolitics is an uncertain business. The world order to which most business leaders were once accustomed is now facing its greatest challenge since the Cold War, if not World War II. Wars in Europe and the Middle East and rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific have made the world more turbulent and less predictable. There are few offramps to what increasingly looks like a geopolitical hard landing that could threaten global security and growth.
The Next AI Debate Is About Geopolitics

Oct 28, 2024 | foreignpolicy.com | Jared Cohen

Geopolitics Science and Technology United States Where industrial revolutions happen can reshape global affairs. Britain’s Industrial Revolution made London the center of an empire upon which the sun never set. The digital age took off in Silicon Valley, making the United States home to world-leading technology companies.
The Next AI Debate Is About Geopolitics

Oct 28, 2024 | flipboard.com | Jared Cohen

NowIndian fintech startup Slice has completed its merger with North East Small Finance Bank, marking a rare instance of a startup successfully entering India’s tightly regulated banking sector. The merger, first proposed last year, transforms the Bengaluru-based startup into a banking entity, following …
Support for Multilateralism is Low, MSC Global South Survey Finds

Sep 18, 2024 | archive.is | Sophie Eisentraut |Jared Cohen |Ian Bremmer |Oliver Stuenkel

As world leaders descend on New York for the United Nations Summit of the Future this week, rules-based multilateralism is in a dismal state. Amid the international community’s failure to conclude a global pandemic treaty and the U.N. Security Council’s paralysis in the face of both Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas conflict, it’s hard to recall the last success of multilateral cooperation.
Inherent Risks Associated With Proposed Hospital

Aug 19, 2024 | timesnewspapers.com | Jared Cohen

I write in opposition to the proposal by KVC/St. Louis Children’s Hospital to expand 303 N. Gore Ave. into a pediatric psychiatric hospital. I am a physician with experience treating patients with mental health issues. I have witnessed the growing mental health epidemic firsthand and fully support the efforts to expand services for this vulnerable population. However, the safety risks associated with such a facility embedded in a residential community have not been appropriately disclosed.