Artificial Intelligence (AI) / China / United States
Trillions in market value and hundreds of billions in infrastructure spending rest on one assumption: scarcity. China’s open model push is testing whether that assumption can survive.
A small cluster of media groups and global platforms now acts as editor in chief of public reality in Britain. Three national newspaper groups control almost all print circulation, two chains dominate local titles, and a few foreign technology firms decide how news is found and funded. Together they translate extreme wealth at the top into quiet control over what citizens see, fear and forget.