What we watch

The World Desk

Every domain in one record, kept continuously. Each desk below is a slice of it.

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The desks

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Space Desk

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 · Ras Laffan

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 · Israel · Tariffs · 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 · Navy · 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: FDA · Colorectal Cancer · Boehringer Ingelheim

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 · Rennes · Oil

Maritime

Shipping on the Gulf and Red Sea routes: the conditions we follow, 30 days of events, and what we could and could not read.

Built from the Hormuz reporting ledger

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