Security-and-defence correspondent at the Financial Times.
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Clover wrote "The new arms race in computing power" (Financial Times, 22 May 2026), the paper's first major long-form treatment of compute as a strategic rather than commercial asset (The new arms race in computing power). Its argument is that computing power is becoming a determinant of national sovereignty, and it takes the United Kingdom as its worked case.
The framing places the piece in the compute-sovereignty literature rather than the AI-capability literature: the object of analysis is national capacity to procure, host, and control compute, not what models can do. That makes it a defence-desk treatment of a subject usually covered on technology desks — which is itself part of what the piece documents.