Gary Reed

Artificial intelligence is no longer merely a contest over who can build the most capable model. It has become a test of national power, economic resilience, energy policy, scientific ambition, regulatory philosophy, and cultural confidence. The United States and France approach that test from vastly different positions. America commands the world’s deepest pools of capital, computing infrastructure, cloud capacity, and frontier-model companies. France, while operating on a smaller scale, is...

From grand cathedrals to village chapels, a new generation of patrons is rediscovering that preserving heritage is also an investment in the future.

For centuries, humanity has looked toward the heavens and wondered whether life exists elsewhere in the universe. Philosophers debated the question long before modern science could begin to answer it. Astronomers mapped planets and moons. Writers imagined civilizations beyond Earth. Yet only in recent decades have space agencies developed the tools capable of investigating one of the most profound questions in human history: how does life begin? In that search, one destination has...