@nsrnicek.bsky.social
Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
My review of @nsrnicek.bsky.social's new book on AI, 'Silicon Empires', in Jacobin π
bsky.app/profile/jaco...
Really glad you enjoyed it!
27.01.2026 20:24 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Very much looking forward to this - Silicon Empires by @nsrnicek.bsky.social is the best book I've read on the political economy of AI
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SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers.
More here:
www.wired.com/story/palant...
studying the enemy
27.01.2026 10:49 β π 114 π 9 π¬ 5 π 0Somehow I missed that Kasy book was out - it sounds great
27.01.2026 10:53 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The Dig is one of my favourite podcasts, so it was a real honour to be able to chat with Daniel about all things AI
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In an excerpt from his new book "Silicon Empires," @nsrnicek.bsky.social looks at how Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI β once united in opposition to military use of their AI tools β came around to working with the Pentagon. www.wired.com/story/book-e...
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EVENT
| @nsrnicek.bsky.social on Silicon Empires |
| Fri 13th Feb, 18:30 |
| Newspeak House, London |
Yesterday, we held the first session of the βAI critiqueβ seminar, welcoming two scholars whose work has profoundly shaped critical debates on the political economy of AI: @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & @nsrnicek.bsky.social. Here is a short overview of the session: www.felixtreguer.fr/en/2026/01/1...
13.01.2026 13:03 β π 10 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Thank you - I hope you enjoy it!
12.01.2026 21:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks Dan!
08.01.2026 23:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Silicon Empires is out today in the US! For anyone interested, I'm resharing this thread outlining some of the key arguments of the book.
08.01.2026 16:20 β π 21 π 9 π¬ 1 π 0
Just picked up @nsrnicek.bsky.socialβs new book. Congrats Nick, it looks great and Iβm
excited to dig in!
Thanks Niels, hope you enjoy it!
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Who owns the future of artificial intelligence? Our video of the week argues that the true struggle is not just over technological prowess, but over the capture and organization of value across a multi-layered AI βstack.β
Feat. @nsrnicek.bsky.social
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βStrategic incoherency is the imperial expression of domestic contestations.β - @nsrnicek.bsky.social
09.12.2025 04:48 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
New post from me, trying to understand the various deals being made to build out AI infrastructure. Plus some news and research I thought was interesting recently.
siliconempires.substack.com/p/financing-...
New post from me, trying to understand the various deals being made to build out AI infrastructure. Plus some news and research I thought was interesting recently.
siliconempires.substack.com/p/financing-...
Joint book launch at Kingβs π
Featuring:
β’ @jwyg.bsky.social, Public Data Cultures
β’ @nsrnicek.bsky.social, Silicon Empires
β’ @mayameme.bsky.social, Auto-Correct
In conversation with @noortjem.bsky.social &
@joannazylinska.bsky.social
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3 Dec, 19:00-21:00
www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...
I've started up a newsletter to try and collect together my incipient thoughts and notes on the intersection of AI, geopolitics, and capitalism. I'm unlikely to post often, but feel free to subscribe and get updates here: siliconempires.substack.com
12.11.2025 13:56 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0The straightforward benefits being profits flow to US companies and power flows to America via the capacity for weaponised interdependence
11.11.2025 11:08 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0I'm not sure the Marshall Plan is the best analogy (and not sure what a good parallel would be offhand), but the intention is clear - to expand the US AI stack so that others are dependent ("addicted" in the words of Howard Lutnick) on the technology
11.11.2025 11:08 β π 1 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Tbf, this specific policy isn't in the book since it came out after I was done writing. But the broad outlines of US strategy were I think clear from before - with various tensions playing out during Biden's administration
11.11.2025 11:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0All in all, the idea of "exporting the AI stack" is becoming the dominant frame for US AI expansion, so it's worth following what the government decides after its current request for information period
10.11.2025 13:06 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 03οΈβ£ A reemphasis on what the government is offering: "Selected [US] companies would all be offered to foreign governments as part of the program, and all would be equally eligible for development finance loans, grants, and other perks."
10.11.2025 13:06 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 1 π 02οΈβ£ Weaponised interdependence is a key goal (here recast as "data-center-based governance")
10.11.2025 13:06 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 01οΈβ£ American data centres alone are deemed insufficient to achieve US strategy goals - hence the need to think about the entire AI stack
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The blog here is an enlightening piece on the EO, from one of the key architects behind it. The whole thing is worth reading, but some particularly notable points are:
www.hyperdimensional.co/p/dont-overt...
Most of the discussion around America's AI strategy abroad has focused on the AI Action Plan - but perhaps more important was the Executive Order on exporting the AI stack.
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