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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Europe’s AI Retreat: Cutting “Red Tape” or Cutting Corners?
On Thursday, EU governments and Parliament negotiators struck a provisional deal to water down key parts of the bloc’s landmark AI Act, delaying enforcement for some of the riskiest systems and carving
Your Next Phone is Paying for AI’s Data Center Addiction
There is a quiet redistribution happening inside the global economy, one that most consumers will feel before they fully understand it. The artificial intelligence boom is not just reshaping corporate strategy or
How AI Empowers Indian Villages
Ajay Banga’s point at the IMF Spring Meetings is best read as a challenge to move beyond AI as an urban-centric productivity tool and make it a rural equalizer. India now has
Stop Blaming the Bot
There is a story being told about young people and artificial intelligence that goes something like this: the robots arrived, the entry-level jobs vanished, and a generation was left stranded before it
