Fahad M. Abalkhail

4️⃣ The signal:
Washington is bringing classical deterrence back to the table — but at the cost of dismantling 30 years of fragile nuclear stability.

#Geopolitics #Defense #Nuclear #US #Security #RiskAnalysis

3️⃣ Economic & geopolitical fallout:
– Global defense budgets will rise
– Nuclear alliances may shift
– Funding will flow to tactical nukes and missile-defense R&D

2️⃣ Media headlines focused on the order itself, but the strategic implications run deeper:
– De-facto collapse of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
– Renewed arms race with Russia and China
– Pressure on regional nuclear powers (India, Pakistan, North Korea)

U.S. Nuclear Tests Resumption 🇺🇸⚠️

1️⃣ According to Reuters, President Trump has directed the Department of Defense to resume nuclear weapons testing — the first since 1992.
A symbolic break from three decades of self-restraint.

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The next correction won’t kill AI.
It’ll separate signal from noise.
And those who can tell the difference — will own the future.

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If you’re a founder or investor:
• Build around real value, not noise.
• Track cash flow, not headlines.
• Use the hype — but don’t depend on it.

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AI isn’t fake — but expectations are inflated.
The tech will survive; most hype-driven startups won’t.

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The narrative “AI will change everything” is now stronger than the actual data.
That’s how bubbles form: belief outpaces reality.

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AI companies are growing fast, but few have sustainable business models.
Many rely entirely on hype cycles and investor optimism — not profits.

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Economists Brent Goldfarb & David Kirsch define 4 classic signs of a tech bubble:
1️⃣ Unclear value creation
2️⃣ Pure-play dependency
3️⃣ Retail investor rush
4️⃣ Seductive storytelling

Sound familiar?

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Since ChatGPT launched in 2022, billions have flooded into anything labeled “AI.”
Markets treat it like digital gold.
But as WIRED notes — the pattern looks eerily familiar.

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Everyone’s talking about the AI revolution.
But what if what we’re living through isn’t a revolution — it’s a bubble?

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So while headlines chased politics, the quiet AWS failure may be remembered as the event that redefined digital sovereignty.
Infrastructure = power.
Whoever controls the cloud controls the future.

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And Humain Saudi (via Bloomberg) is building regional AI-ready data centers powered by U.S. chips — launching 2026 — positioning the Kingdom as a regional sovereign cloud exporter.

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This is where Saudi Arabia is moving early.
Under its data-sovereignty strategy:

stc Cloud, Google Cloud (Riyadh), Oracle (Jeddah) run under the PDPL law.

New $6 billion data-center investments target 1.5 GW capacity by 2030.

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The outage also re-ignited a bigger question:
Who actually controls the world’s data?
And what happens when national security, finance, or AI models rely on servers in another jurisdiction?

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What failed wasn’t a server.
It was the idea of decentralization itself.
The internet that promised redundancy has quietly become centralized in a few hyperscale backbones.

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It looked minor.
But it exposed a structural risk:
💡 > 60 % of the global cloud market is controlled by only 3 companies (AWS, Microsoft, Google).
One software error = partial global shutdown.

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On Oct 20 2025, AWS — the world’s largest cloud provider — went down across the US, Europe & Asia.
No hack. No data leak.
Just a network routing failure that silently broke thousands of systems.
[Source: AP / Business Insider]

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A story the media mostly ignored this week:
A “boring” technical glitch at Amazon Web Services (AWS) that might be the most important digital warning of the decade.

The future of work isn’t about replacing humans with machines — it’s about re-designing collaboration between them.
Productivity must mean creating enduring value, not just output.

The problem is our definition of productivity.

Even Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO) revealed that polite phrases like “please” and “thank you” cost the company millions in energy bills.
Every digital action has a real-world footprint.
Source: Tom’s Hardware (2024)

AI Magazine (May 2024) shows how AI hardware — GPUs and TPUs — supercharges computation but also deepens sustainability and energy concerns.
Efficiency ≠ sustainability.

Generative AI and Digital Forensics (Ravindra Das, 2025) warns that AI-generated data overload creates new security and cognitive costs.
The time saved by AI often gets spent managing its side effects.

In AI Power Funnels (Ylva Bosemark, 2023), businesses that automate without understanding customers achieve only surface-level efficiency.
High speed, low impact.

Recent research shows that AI doesn’t replace humans — it amplifies efficiency.
Yet, when automation becomes the goal itself, flexibility, creativity, and human meaning begin to erode.

🧵 The Productivity Paradox in the Age of AI

We live in a world obsessed with efficiency.
AI promises to make everything faster, cheaper, smarter — but is productivity still about value, or just about volume?

5️⃣ Meta crosses a line: starting Dec 16 2025, AI chat data will feed its ad engine.
Source: Times of India

6️⃣ Massachusetts acts: new bill lets people see and limit what firms sell about them.
Source: Boston.com

🔚 Privacy is no longer background noise — it’s policy, business, and power.

3️⃣ Google backs off AI health-data policy after staff revolt. Data sharing now optional.
Source: Business Insider

4️⃣ California steps up: by 2027, browsers must show a “Do Not Sell My Data” button.
Source: Washington Post

1️⃣ Discord leak: 70K users hit after a vendor breach — even ID photos exposed. Real risk of identity theft.
Source: The Guardian

2️⃣ Germany says no to the EU’s “Chat Control.” Scanning private chats = privacy violation.
Source: TechRadar