Arjun Mehta
Arjun covers the technologies rewiring the global economy — chips, cables, AI and the labs behind them — and what the science actually shows.
Articles by Arjun Mehta
One Island Prints the World's Advanced Chips. The Map Everyone Is Trying to Redraw
The most sophisticated objects humans make depend on a supply chain with single points of failure. Governments are spending fortunes to change that.
What a COP Actually Decides: A Reader's Guide to the World's Most Misunderstood Meeting
Every year the climate summit produces headlines of triumph and betrayal. Knowing what the texts can and cannot do explains both.
Three Ways to Govern AI: Brussels Writes Rules, Washington Writes Cheques, Beijing Writes Licences
The world is running three regulatory experiments on the same technology at once. Everyone else gets to choose a lane — or be chosen for.
The Energy Transition in Three Numbers: Record Solar, Record Investment, Stubborn Emissions
Clean energy is being built faster than any energy technology in history — and the fossil system it must replace is still growing in places.
The Internet Is a Seafloor Technology: Inside the Cable Network That Carries Almost Everything
Satellites get the headlines; roughly the entire internet crosses oceans through fibre the width of a garden hose.
The First Industry to Fully Believe in Climate Change Is the One That Prices It
Insurers retreating from floodplains and fire zones are running the world's largest live experiment in climate economics.