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  1. The ceiling on Kazakhstan’s AI ambitions is the grid
    OpinionBrief3 Jul

    The ceiling on Kazakhstan’s AI ambitions is the grid

    This week Kazakhstan formalised its bid to become Central Asia’s computing power. The arithmetic of its electricity system will decide how much of that bid survives to 2031.

  2. Aigerim Bekova column
    OpinionBrief8 Jun

    Fifty companies

    Kyrgyzstan shut down fifty companies on a list provided by Washington and London. The part of the story that got less attention: it was a list of fifty-one.