Technology

July 1, 2026

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

Technology

June 30, 2026

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,

Technology

June 28, 2026

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

June 13, 2026

Technology

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.

June 12, 2026

Technology

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

June 11, 2026

Technology

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

June 5, 2026

Technology

The Last Lesson We Learned Before We Forgot It

American education has developed a peculiar habit: every time a new technology arrives, we treat skepticism as a failure of imagination. This is how we got laptops in every classroom. It is

June 3, 2026

Culture·Technology

Can AI Companies Pay for the Jobs They Disrupt?

OpenAI’s $250 million job fund is less a charity gesture than a signal that the company now recognizes an uncomfortable truth: if AI is going to reshape work, it has to help

May 28, 2026

Explainer·Technology

Can Brussels Build Trust? A Bigger Role for INTCEN

The European Union’s low‑profile Intelligence and Situation Centre (INTCEN) is suddenly at the heart of a high‑stakes argument about how Europe should organise power, secrecy and sovereignty in a much harsher security

May 27, 2026

Technology

Big Tech Makes its Case to the Pope

Silicon Valley has always known where power resides, even when it is cloaked in ritual rather than code. Its latest pilgrimage—to the Vatican—is less surprising than it might appear. As Pope Leo

May 25, 2026

Technology

The Race to Stop World Cup Drones

The World Cup is supposed to be a tournament of joy, spectacle and shared civic pride. Instead, just weeks before kickoff, host cities are scrambling to harden stadium airspace against a threat

May 17, 2026

Technology

A SMART Way to Fly: FAA’s AI Twin of the National Airspace Takes Shape

AI is at the center of the Federal Aviation Administration’s new plan to overhaul how America manages its crowded skies, anchored by a predictive traffic-management program known as SMART that aims to

May 10, 2026

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