In 1995, Newt Gingrich lobotomized Congress’s technical brain trust. It should be rebuilt.
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Will an AI Slowdown Tank the Economy?
Anthropic and OpenAI want to hit the brakes on AI investment—the only thing propping up the broader economy.
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Congressional Democrats in Hysterics About Saving the World From AI
Why panic when you could just use existing laws?
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Why OpenAI Hired Chuck Schumer’s Daughter Away From Amazon
The AI industry has a greater need for government influence than anyone else.
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Anthropic (Re-)Enlists for War
The AI company is advertising for a ‘National Security Sales’ position, suggesting that its battle with the Defense Department will soon be over.
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Silicon Valley Needs Washington After All
The industry that spent 50 years insisting it didn’t need the state has discovered it can’t do without it.
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The Great AI Repricing Isn’t Going Well
Companies are backing off on their AI spending. Because investors have made such big bets on AI coming to fruition, that’s a big problem.
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A Market Bubble Led by AI
Artificial intelligence may not be intelligent enough to accurately value AI companies.
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AI Is Supercharging the Surveillance State
Warrants are at the center of the debate over government spying, and for good reason. But artificial intelligence is redefining the contours of that debate.
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Artifice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
To understand the tech mindset is to see that the ultimate goal is domination. Silicon Valley elites apply a different standard to themselves because, quite simply, they believe that they deserve a different set of rules and expectations.