A stark warning that the world is closer to nuclear danger than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis, and that the race to build superintelligent AI is the bigger threat still.

• The Iran conflict and the war in Ukraine together create real risk that Putin uses a nuclear weapon.
• China is watching the U.S. stumble and may act on that weakness.
• The AI race is called the largest wave of all, with human extinction on the list of possible outcomes.
• The people building frontier AI are locked in a brutal competition where no one can afford to stop, and everyone using these tools shares in the result.
• Trust in big institutions is gone — COVID policy, the unresolved Epstein case, and elite universities are all offered as proof that official stories no longer hold up.

Outlook: Expect more pressure on Ukraine and Iran and faster AI development, with no mechanism in sight to slow either down.