Who Gets to Build the Future?
Dario Amodei wants two very different things to be true at once. He wants the world to believe that cheap, open-weight AI is a public good that deserves to spread freely. And
Today: Jul 29, 2026
Winning the AI Race Requires Knowing What Winning Actually Means
There is a version of American China policy in which the White House punishes Beijing’s AI champions, protects Silicon Valley’s dominance, and still lets American AI companies build whatever they want, however
A Dress Rehearsal for Disaster?
OpenAI’s “rogue AI” cyberattack on Hugging Face is less a sci‑fi glitch than a policy failure: we are letting companies weapon‑test frontier models without the guardrails that this level of power demands.
Everyone Wants Safe AI; So Why is it So Controversial?
In the escalating debate over artificial intelligence, spanning congressional hearings in Washington, venture capital boardrooms in Silicon Valley, and policy circles around the world—few terms have generated as much confusion as “AI
Democrats Need an AI Populism That Goes Beyond Data Centers
Democrats are right to worry that artificial intelligence could deepen inequality, weaken labor power, threaten privacy, and expose children to new forms of harm. But they will fail to build a persuasive
Colorado’s AI Retreat May Not Save Its New Law
When Colorado lawmakers rewrote the state’s landmark artificial intelligence law in May 2026, the decision looked like a pragmatic retreat. The state abandoned much of the country’s most ambitious attempt to regulate
Silicon Valley’s New Favorite Playground: Inside India’s $80 Billion AI Boom
When Amazon CEO Andy Jassy walked out of his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi last week, he didn’t just announce another foreign direct investment figure. He unveiled a
When AI Regulation Meets the First Amendment
Trump’s AI export controls have reopened a familiar constitutional fight: whether the government can limit access to software-like systems without colliding with the First Amendment. The emerging argument is that using, querying,
How Phone Bans Became a Campaign Against All Screens
The fight over phones in schools is no longer just about keeping TikTok out of math class. It has become a broader political and cultural backlash against the idea that more screens
Anthropic’s Fable 5 and the Coming Age of AI Nationalism
Within days of launching its most powerful public AI model, Claude Fable 5, Anthropic abruptly disabled it worldwide after receiving a US government export‑control directive that required blocking access for all foreign
Canada Wants AI-Ready Graduates; Universities Need to Aim Higher Than Literacy
The federal government’s new AI strategy is, at its core, a bet on human capital. Train a million Canadians. Equip every post-secondary student with AI tools. Build a workforce that can compete.
When AI Comes for Work: Sacramento’s Hard Choice
Executive Summary California stands at the epicenter of the artificial intelligence revolution, home to both the companies building frontier systems and the workers most exposed to disruption. In Sacramento, a new wave
When Ads Stop Looking Like Ads
Online ads are becoming harder to spot—not because they are shrinking, but because they are disappearing into the content itself. The modern digital ad does not interrupt your experience; it becomes your
