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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, China have begun. More than 2,000 humanoid robots are competing. And America is incredibly far behind China in physical AI.

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Huge. A Brookfield-backed datacenter company is pulling out of a major project in Virginia, that they had been working on for years, due to growing political opposition

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

How will the Iran war reshape American power, especially in Asia? What does it mean for the future of the Gulf, for India–Pakistan, and for Turkey? And where does Europe fit into all of this? How about in infrastructure, connectivity, and logistics?

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

How the Escalation Trap Works

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The Ukrainian FPV attack-drone revolution has arrived in the Middle East. For the first time, an Iranian-backed militia has carried out an FPV drone attack in Iraq. The FPV munition flies around Victory Base near Baghdad International Airport before slamming into a building.

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Grateful to see West Asia climbing the Amazon charts 📚 #2 in Political Science • Top 20 in Asian Politics • Top 40 in Middle Eastern Politics Thank you to everyone reading, sharing, and debating these ideas. a.co/d/09N3OSZz

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

"The world is changing very fast right in front of us. The old world is gone ... We live in a new era in geopolitics, and it's going to require all of us to sort of re-examine what that looks like and what our role is going to be."

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

In my new book, West Asia, I trace the rise of the Gulf as a nerve center for this expansive system, stretching from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. Order West Asia today: a.co/d/07MPms0V

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

They had "Venezuela" in the search bar with the latest tab selected so they could see real time updates as posts were coming through

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Trump: "The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal. And we've superseded it by a lot. They now call it the Donro Doctrine."

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

At this rate, America's biotech industry won't just sputter, it will collapse before it can even compete with China.

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

“When the towers came down, it changed the game.” A long goodbye to the first quarter of the 21st century. open.substack.com/pub/soliman/...

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

What to watch: Secretary Bessent laid out the strategic industries where the government wants to step in to push reshoring: chips, steel, shipbuilding, and pharmaceuticals.

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

As 2025 winds down, I’ve been reflecting on a year that felt unusually full of movement, ideas, and life changes. And grateful for the conversations, the travel, and the people who shaped this year. If you’re curious: lnkd.in/et4Mc-Vx

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Just back from the Mediterranean Dialogues in Napoli, after an incredible few days discussing the AI infrastructure boom reshaping the region — from subsea cables to an emerging U.S.–EU–Gulf AI infrastructure bridge.

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

“We’ve underestimated Chinese power…I think the Chinese technology, military, and economics are stronger than we think they are.” — Nicholas Burns, former U.S. Ambassador to China

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The internet we knew is disappearing. In 2020, almost everything online was written by people. Now, nearly half of it comes from AI and by next year, it could be most of it. AI made words cheap. Truth got expensive.

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

How It Started….. How It's Going

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Each F-35 requires 418 kg of rare earths, an Arleigh Burke destroyer requires 2,600 kg, and a Virginia-class submarine requires 4,600 kg. With the majority of U.S. imports coming from China. Unprecedented crisis.

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

OpenAI makes up around $330B of the $880B total future contract value (RPO) tied to Microsoft, Oracle, and CoreWeave, so a lot of supplier growth depends directly on OpenAI’s stability.

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

how money is moving around the AI ecosystem

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

how money is moving around the AI ecosystem

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

OpenAI still commands the lion’s share of traffic in the generative AI space but that grip is loosening. We’re moving toward a more pluralistic, multi-agent ecosystem.

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Infrastructure capex is projected to exceed $2.1 trillion by 2029.

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

🇲🇽🇲🇽 Mexico City — unmatched

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

AI adoption actually falling now for many firms

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Back in 2023, training an LLM was pretty simple: pretraining and post-training. By 2025, the recipe has gotten a lot more layered: data mixtures, midtraining for reasoning and context, advanced post-training, and even model merging. Moving fast….

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Of 20 fastest-growing European cities, 10 are Polish

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Radiology makes up the bulk of AI medical devices, with nearly 80% of FDA clearances in 2024.

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

American teenagers aren’t reading less—they’re barely reading at all.

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Sam Altman Explains Why the World Needs More AI Infrastructure

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The war on terror has come full circle. What was it all about? What was America fighting for, exactly? No one knows… Endless bloodshed and war for war’s sake. Nations destroyed. And irreversible damage to America’s political system.

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Huawei has built around 70% of Africa’s 4G networks, partnering with governments and companies in the continent’s largest economies, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Chinese investment and construction in technology in Africa, 2005-2025

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

The world today sits in a very precarious place — neither war nor peace.

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The 1588 Spanish plan to conquer China aimed to open an eastern front against the Ottoman Empire.

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

What Columbus thought the world looked like before sailing to the Americas.

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Something has fundamentally changed in the relationship between Washington and Silicon Valley that is likely to persist after Trump’s tenure.

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Geography is no longer siloed: South Asia and the Middle East form a single system—West Asia—where India is part of the Middle East. Compute, capital, and connectivity will define this expansive region.

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

What makes the India–Middle East–Europe Corridor different from what I call China Inc.’s Belt and Road Initiative? Here’s my take:

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

China has nearly tripled its nuclear capacity in 10 years

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Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

This should be a wake-up call for every policymaker in developed and developing nations alike!

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