The administration's $12 billion stockpile of critical minerals is aimed at blunting China's influence. But it also revels the direction of the global economy.
Buoys, ships, and some autonomous rovers have recently added some detail, but itβs nothing like what we get from satellites today. Itβs frustrating to everyone from fishermen to the Coast Guard, meteorologists to offshore wind developers.
Elon Musk's reported merging of SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla harkens back to the heyday of General Electric β or maybe the robber barons of the Gilded Age.