The AI-geopolitics beat did not pause this week because the policy environment grew calm. Chip export control debates, talent visa restrictions, and frontier model competition are all still in motion. What changed is that the attention economy that sustains coverage of those slow-moving stories got outcompeted by a faster one. The Hormuz attacks [3], Iran ceasefire negotiations , and Washington's entry-fee demands on Ottawa are stories that resolve on a news cycle that AI policy cannot match. The result is a feed that looks like a lull but is…