The Columbus Journal

Columbus's editorial record on the future of leadership, Sovereign AI, and the institutions that shape the world. Three streams: Dispatches for the question of the moment, The Long View for the deeper argument, and In Conversation for the figures who actually decide.

The Long View

The Succession Decade.

On the generational handover the world's most consequential institutions are about to undergo, and the structural reason most are unprepared.

By The Columbus Editorial Board · 3,400 words · May 2026

Issue I · Inaugural Essay

Dispatch

What the deepfake decade should have taught us and what it didn't.

A composite of incidents, none of them fictional in their essentials, and the institutional discipline still missing from the response.

In Conversation

Three years from strategy execution to Sovereign AI.

The founder of Columbus on the founding insight, the discipline of refusal, and the moment the Digital Human Twin opportunity became visible.

In Conversation

Building at the principal grade.

Columbus's lead developer on what makes principal-grade engineering different, the technical debates the public conversation has not caught up with, and the surprises of building at the apex.

In Conversation

Women, AI, and the rooms where it is being decided.

Columbus's co-founder and Managing Director on what the AI conversation is missing, why the Gulf is a more serious place to build than commentators acknowledge, and the difference between performing inclusion and being present.

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