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President Trump displays a signed executive order during an event in the East Room of the White House.

Big Tech Poised to Win Immunity Shield From State AI Regulation

by David Dayen November 20, 2025November 20, 2025

The Trump administration is readying an executive order preempting constraints on AI. It could become a much more wide-ranging deregulatory tool.

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Companies Are Trying to Hide Their Ties to Larry Summers

by Henry Burke and Dylan Gyauch-Lewis November 19, 2025November 19, 2025

Some fintech and energy startups haven’t announced that Summers is leaving; they just took him off their websites.

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The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think

by David Dayen November 19, 2025December 2, 2025

It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.

ChatGPT Atlas displayed on a mobile phone with the OpenAI branding in the background

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OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout

by Ryan Cooper November 7, 2025November 6, 2025

For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.

ExxonMobil sign on wall outside headquarters

Law and Justice

Exxon’s Latest Supreme Court Hail Mary

by Hannah Story Brown November 7, 2025November 6, 2025

Oil companies insist that if cases are allowed to proceed, it could have major ramifications for the future of their industry. Will a Supreme Court willing to grant Trump immunity for his crimes do the same for Trump’s oil industry backers?

Videos

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: How the Supreme Court Legalized Political Corruption

by Prospect Staff October 31, 2025October 31, 2025

David and Master Plan co-author David Sirota go through the 50-year history of corporations plotting to buy the government.

Trump's hands holding an illustration of the proposed new White House ballroom.

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Here’s What Trump’s Ballroom Donors Want

by David Dayen October 28, 2025October 28, 2025

The price tag on Donald Trump’s garish White House ballroom, now up to $350 million, keeps increasing. That’s because the cost of construction isn’t nearly as important as having an inventory of donations available for corporate America to pony up.

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Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.

by Whitney Curry Wimbish and Naomi Bethune October 2, 2025October 17, 2025

The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.

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Why Do We Assume TrumpTok Will Succeed?

by David Dayen September 29, 2025October 20, 2025

Oracle has no history of creating compelling consumer-facing products. Their ability to run the most addictive algorithm in social media is questionable.