Signal Named firms supported Ukraine after the 2022 invasion on their own initiative

Summary

This signal is the report's main example of technology firms acting as geopolitical players. After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, major companies including SpaceX and Microsoft provided critical support to Ukraine. Smaller US-based AI startups, named as Primer.AI and Clearview AI, also contributed. The report stresses that these firms acted on their own initiative rather than on instructions from any government. The case shows private companies making consequential choices in a war that states would once have monopolised. It supports the report's first story of change, in which technology firms and their leaders challenge the primacy of states.