De beste (Engelstalige) artikelen van de week: Musk domineert de (media)ruimte

SpaceX bereidt een beursgang voor, Anthropic lanceert een model dat kwetsbaarheden in slechts enkele uren kan uitbuiten, en drie redacties buigen zich gelijktijdig over de groeiende straffeloosheid van Elon Musk: de week had onmiskenbaar één centrale protagonist. Daaromheen: Noord-Korea als economisch wonder, autonome vrachtwagens die Doritos bezorgen, en een vraag die The Economist bloedserieus stelt: hoe vaak per dag denkt u aan Alexander de Grote?

Maandag 8 juni 2026

• The world's most surprising economic success story is... North Korea (Wall Street Journal).
• Will artificial intelligence soon escape human control? (The Economist).
• "Make America Healthy Again" is running out of steam (Politico).
• Saudi Arabia's NEOM project could face a $16bn bill to cancel contracts (Semafor).
• The poignant story behind the photograph that defined D-Day (National Geographic).
• How to factor falling inventories into the price of a barrel? (Financial Times).

Dinsdag 9 juni 2026

• Anthropic's Mythos software can exploit new vulnerabilities in hours (Axios).
• New AI spying powers trigger camera phobia for Putin (Financial Times).
• How many times a day do you think about Alexander the Great? (The Economist).
• Is Strategy losing its cool? (FT Alphaville).
• Why Trump seems disoriented by his own war (Persuasion).
• Singapore turns to 19th-century technology to combat global warming (Bloomberg).
• Japan emerges as the superpower of middle powers (Bloomberg).
• Autonomous trucks have arrived: and they are delivering bags of Doritos (Wall Street Journal).
• How Donald Trump helped turn the Spanish Prime Minister into a "rockstar" (Politico).

Woensdag 10 juni 2026

• Confessions of an AI lab rat (Axios).
• Trump is becoming Jimmy Carter (Financial Times).
• Which stock sectors perform best when interest rates rise, fall, or stay flat? (Wall Street Journal).
• The inventions born from the expansion of Islam (National Geographic).
• SpaceX is the new East India Company (Project Syndicate).
• Mapping Starlink satellites (Sheet.Works).
• Nvidia in the Gulf (Phenomenal World).

Donderdag 11 juni 2026

• Some soccer teams will be disadvantaged by temperatures in the U.S. (Bloomberg).
• Stock market frenzy in Nigeria (Bloomberg).
• The great fear of the SaaSpocalypse (The Economist).
• How Britain became as poor as Mississippi (The Atlantic).
• Is the U.S. equity market too big? (Project Syndicate).
• The war in Ukraine is now longer than World War I (Wall Street Journal).
• The next U.S. presidential election will be about AI (Noema).
• Tax the rich and save the world (Dollar & Sense).

Vrijdag 12 juni 2026

• The era of Elon Musk's impunity (Axios) and Elon Musk set 602 goals. Did he meet them? (New York Times).
• Negotiating with the Antichrist (Project Syndicate).
• How a small British island found itself at the center of an international gambling scandal (Bloomberg).
• A history crash course on the American Revolutionary War (National Geographic).
• Trump's compensation fund is far from buried (The Atlantic).