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Geopolitics of AI: How Technology is Rewiring Global Power Structures

Artificial intelligence is not merely a technological revolution. It is a power revolution. Whoever leads in AI leads in surveillance, military capability and economic productivity. The race between Washington and Beijing is not about chips. It is about the future of power.