What we watch

The World Desk

The master product: the whole portfolio — every domain, one lattice, read continuously. Each vertical desk below is a slice of this view.

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The vertical desks

Each desk covers one domain. Pick the one you are responsible for.

Space Desk

Market size: $570B

Launch and spaceflight, satellite operators and constellations, spaceports and ground infrastructure, and the federal contracts that pay for them.

Not here: Missile defense and interceptor programs, which route to the Defense desk, and property listings that only borrow the word space.On the wire: SpaceX · NASA

AI & Compute Desk

Market size: $300B+/yr

Model labs and what they ship, chips and the firms that make them, datacenters and the power they draw, and the capital funding all three.

Not here: Consumer gadget reviews, and stories from another industry that use the word AI as a passing adjective — the headline has to speak this desk's language before an item lands here.On the wire: AI · OpenAI · Anthropic · Large Language Model

Geopolitics Desk

Market size: $33T

Conflict, diplomacy, sanctions, tariffs and export controls, and the alliance politics between states.

Not here: Earthquake and storm bulletins and startup funding rounds, both dropped by name, and domestic politics with no cross-border consequence.On the wire: Iran · Tariffs · Israel · China

Defense Desk

Market size: $2.7T

Military procurement and program awards, the prime contractors and industrial base behind them, and the capability each award actually buys.

Not here: Launch and satellites, which are the Space desk's beat, and the sporting and courtroom senses of the word defense, which are dropped by name.On the wire: Pentagon · Drone Dominance

Health & Bio Desk

Market size: $1.6T

Regulatory decisions, clinical-trial readouts, drug and diagnostic approvals, and the oncology research frontier.

Not here: Drug-enforcement and narcotics policing, dropped by name, and consumer wellness coverage that carries no clinical or regulatory finding.On the wire: Florence Pugh · Regeneron · FDA

Energy Desk

Market size: $3.4T/yr

Oil, gas and LNG, nuclear power, renewables, the grid and storage: supply, prices, policy, and the capital rewiring how power is made and moved.

Not here: Arms control, vehicle-emissions rules, chip-fab stories and consumer switching tips, all dropped by name, and climate coverage with no consequence for energy supply.On the wire: Nuclear

Maritime

A state board for each chair on the Gulf and Red Sea routes: 30 days of events, what we read and could not, and the records on this desk.

Live preview desk, built from the Hormuz claims ledger

A daily email brief runs on Space Desk — free, no card and no trial clock. The other 5 desks have no brief yet and say so on the page; each is rebuilt every snapshot and readable in full. Unlimited topic tracking is on the plans.

Market-size figures are editorial estimates with sources as noted on each desk.