GINC Trends Index. Week 36, 2026
QUICK TAKE · AI Summary * US midterms and the AI sell-off powered the week, lifting wealth concentration, AI capital concentration and stretched asset valuations. * European security rounded out the top five, with commercial spyware up 30 per cent and hybrid warfare up 16. * Expectations point the other way: political anger
The Shift #1. Blue Waves, Deadlocks & Election Integrity
SUMMARY * X * Y * Z Subscribe Washington has shown it can still correct, but a 54–44 Senate after a 53–47 one is oscillation, not stability. US voters handed Democrats both chambers of Congress this week, flipping seven Senate seats including Texas and Kansas; the president kept his veto, accepted
GINC Trends Index. Week 35, 2026
QUICK TAKE · AI Summary * The week AI-bubble fears went global, a selloff in AI stocks * the run-up to the US midterms * wave of disinformation around protests in France. Most of the world's structural trends barely moved this week. Across the 250 trends in the GINC Trends
GINC Trends Index. Week 34, 2026
QUICK TAKE · AI Summary * Bullet * Bullet * Bullet The week the streets came back The week to 24 October belonged to the streets and the shadows. Attention to civil unrest more than doubled and attention to hybrid warfare almost did, while the quieter forces of public finance, sovereign wealth and fiscal
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100 National AI Strategies / 2027 Update
QUICK TAKE · AI Summary * Bullet * Bullet * Bullet Since 2019, I've been tracking and reporting on National AI Strategies. This 2026 update now includes 80 National AI Strategies. In 2026 the first post-generative-AI wave of national strategies has landed. Of the 39 retained countries from the 2025