No country in the region has a more complex relationship with Iran than Saudi Arabia. The two nations are rivals for regional influence, separated by sectarian identity — Saudi Arabia is the center of Sunni Islam, Iran the primary patron of Shia political movements across the region — and by fundamentally different visions of regional order. The death of Khamenei and the ongoing Iranian-American-Israeli...
The true meaning of principled engagement with the government has become the AI industry's most contested question, with OpenAI claiming to have achieved it through a Pentagon deal and Anthropic having demonstrated what it looks like when principled engagement fails to reach agreement. The debate between these two definitions of principle will shape how AI companies govern themselves and negotiate with governments for years...
