As AI agents gain the ability to act autonomously, recent OpenAI, Hugging Face and Anthropic incidents raise an urgent question for foreign policy and warfare: how can states preserve meaningful control over decisions increasingly shaped by AI systems?
Microsoft’s Q1 2026 Global AI Diffusion Report reveals that the geography of AI adoption is becoming increasingly complex — with widening disparities and unexpected patterns among major powers.
With 91 countries and over $200 billion in pledged investments, the Delhi summit shifted AI governance from security to impact — but questions of depth and durability remain.
China controls 70% of rare earth extraction and over 90% of processing — reshaping U.S.–China tech competition into a contest over foundational materials.
