Offering a superior option to China’s stifling and grind-focused universities, Liang Wenfeng has harnessed the country’s mathematics talent and founded an AI lab capable of advancing technology.| Bismarck Brief
Steve Jobs' widow is one of the wealthiest women in the world, a top investor in AI, and a major progressive philanthropist. She is a key node between Silicon Valley and the Democratic Party.| brief.bismarckanalysis.com
The long-time head of Oracle is applying both his own vast fortune and his company's capacity to making fast progress in medicine and biotech using artificial intelligence and health data collection.| Bismarck Brief
A frontrunner in the battery revolution disrupting the global car industry with electric vehicles, China's top auto maker is set to continue reducing prices with growing scale and advanced technology.| Bismarck Brief
The Swedish furniture retailer has become the largest company of its kind in the world through unique design and manufacturing choices. It is however no longer led by its eccentric, driven founder.| brief.bismarckanalysis.com
Despite an impressive tradition of knowledge in engineering that has seen the Japanese company build airplanes and rockets, it lacks live player leadership needed to convert it into business success.| Bismarck Brief
Rostec faces the twin challenges of fueling an industrial-scale war and reshoring production of key components under sanctions. It is making incremental progress.| brief.bismarckanalysis.com
The British armed forces and defense industry take a knowingly subsidiary role to the U.S., strengthening its alliances across Europe. This however locks the UK out of great power status.| Bismarck Brief
Despite having the financial and technical resources to do so, Europe can at best only slowly replicate advanced space capabilities. Institutional rigidity will cause it to succumb to competition.| brief.bismarckanalysis.com
The former Google CEO devoted himself to modernizing the U.S. defense and foreign policy apparatus. He is a key figure networked both in Silicon Valley and among establishment elites.| Bismarck Brief
The organizations that put the first man in space are largely structurally unchanged despite a long-term funding reduction. Slow-moving reforms are not enough to withstand new live player competition.| Bismarck Brief
The young president of El Salvador skillfully rose to power then wielded it to install a new elite and crush violent gangs. He is now focused on delivering economic growth to a newly-peaceful country.| brief.bismarckanalysis.com
The third-largest U.S. defense contractor makes unique weapons like stealth bombers and silo-launched nuclear missiles. It is however in every respect a typical dead player of defense contracting.| Bismarck Brief
The French luxury goods company makes some of the world's most desirable consumer items. It is a family-run business that has repeatedly solved the succession problem and appears to be a live player.| brief.bismarckanalysis.com
Technological advances have made it viable to make diamond gems out of common graphite and electricity. Mass production is ending the socially engineered elevated status of diamonds above other gems.| Bismarck Brief
The eBay founder became a major progressive philanthropist with a particular focus on supporting journalism. He is now widely funding social, financial, and legal attacks on Silicon Valley.| brief.bismarckanalysis.com
From making machine tools to die cast presses, Italy's small and often family-owned firms make the country an underrated industrial power. Rapid aging and expensive energy threaten this economy.| Bismarck Brief
The largest U.S. defense startup is led by California technologists and defense insiders. Its ambitions to reform Pentagon procurement and deliver war-winning weapons face structural challenges.| Bismarck Brief
One of the key innovations in modern drone warfare has come, surprisingly, from a developing country cordoned off from the global economy by sanctions. This necessity may spur further innovations.| brief.bismarckanalysis.com
The world's largest and most profitable automobile manufacturer is a Japanese corporation built by a family of mechanical engineers. It has however failed succession and now seems unlikely to adapt.| Bismarck Brief