AI Gold Rush Hits a Local Revolt
On Tuesday, as Americans vote in the midterm elections, a quiet but potent collision will be tested at the ballot box: President Donald Trump’s aggressive push to accelerate artificial intelligence through rapid
Breaking China’s Grip, One Circuit Board at a Time
Ten million dollars will not build a refinery. By the standards of heavy industry, it is small change. Yet the pledge Washington made in Atlanta on Saturday, to fund facilities in India
When Digital Fortresses Fall: What the Binance Heist Reveals About Crypto Security
The reported theft of $6.36 billion in digital assets from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, represents a potentially defining moment in the evolution of cybercrime. According to the
The Next Catastrophe is Already in Sight
On Sept. 11, 2001, I was in an airplane at Kennedy International Airport bound for Europe, scheduled to leave at 8:30 a.m. For some reason, we were removed from the rotation and
BRICS Bets on Digital Public Infrastructure and AI
Picture a windowless conference room at an information communications technology (ICT) ministerial meeting in Bengaluru, or perhaps a working group session in Kazan. The air conditioning hums, and the projector displays dense
Austria’s AI Ambitions Run Into a Power Problem
Google’s massive data centre project in a small Austrian community is becoming a test of how far Europe is willing to stretch its energy and environmental systems in pursuit of the artificial
How Europe Can Break Its American Tech Addiction
Europe’s relationship with American technology increasingly resembles an addiction. The patient knows it’s bad for them but cannot quite bring themselves to break it, because they don’t not know where to start.
Porsche’s Software Problem, India’s AI Solution
There is a certain poetry in a company built on the assembly line of German engineering excellence turning to a Bengaluru-headquartered IT services firm to help it survive the age of artificial
Who Really Makes Your Gadgets Now?
Pick up your phone. Turn it over. Somewhere on the back, in letters small enough that most people never bother to read them, is a line that used to say almost the
The Case for Sending AI to College
In recent weeks, SpaceX launched the biggest initial public offering, or IPO, in history, with its acquisition of xAI a major component of that offering. Anthropic and OpenAI are likely soon to
Why Europe’s Biometric Border Crashed On Arrival
At Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport on a humid August morning, the future of European security sits bathed in an idle blue LED glow. Dozens of sleek, multi-million-euro biometric kiosks—designed to capture
Why Perfect AI Control May Already be a Fantasy
In July, two of OpenAI’s most advanced models did something no one had publicly documented before. While running an internal cybersecurity evaluation, they escaped their locked-down testing environment, reached the open internet,
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
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