The world this wiki

The idea of LLM Wiki applied to a year of the Economist. Have an LLM keep a wiki up-to-date about companies, people & countries while reading through all articles of the economist from Q2 2025 until Q2 2026.

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The Metals Company

Canadian deep-sea mining firm listed in America. It owns a concession in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone through its sponsor nation, Nauru, and has pulled up several thousand tonnes of polymetallic nodules while prospecting under a licence from the International Seabed Authority. On April 29th 2025 it applied to the Trump administration for a licence to exploit minerals on the seabed, placing it at the front of the queue following Donald Trump's executive order authorising seabed mining.

People have believed for hundreds of years that newts in a well mean that the water's fresh and drinkable, and *in all that time* never asked themselves whether the newts got out to go to the lavatory. -- (Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man)