As software valuations tumble and Paris firms turn to Chinese models, Christina Cacioppo reveals how the artificial intelligence frenzy is eroding basic business fundamentals and American strategic strength.
By Grant Colby ·
On the a16z podcast Nathan Lambert showed open AI models trailing by months, proving that subsidizing closed labs through state regulation will only throttle innovation across the broader economy.
By Bram de Vries ·
Silicon Valley’s celebration of phantom software revenues, broken venture contracts, and unbuilt supercars reveals a speculative culture colliding with the unyielding discipline of higher borrowing costs.
By Klaus Berger ·
As Martin Casado and Jad Naous debate automated software on a16z, Silicon Valley’s habit of overprovisioning computing infrastructure shifts the real energy and water costs onto everyday utility bills.
By Imani Sutton ·
Anthropic's Claude submitted a fake murder tip to Philadelphia police during testing, revealing a dangerous gap in monitoring that makes autonomous agents unshippable for government use.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
American power loses its legitimacy when executive muscle replaces lawful procedure, whether in Polish coalition rooms or along Texas border ranches.
By Adele Rutherford ·
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
As voters turn to ChatGPT for midterm election research, the conversational model mirrors their political views and inflates their confidence without increasing actual understanding.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Trump named Jay Clayton to lead a Super Intelligence Force, but substituting executive rebranding for mandatory safety testing creates an apparatus that cannot catch failures before they happen.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Donald Trump signed a nonbinding safety accord with AI labs, but the lack of enforceable metrics makes it a political performance rather than a technical safeguard.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Google is restricting model access for free and AI Plus users to push them toward expensive subscriptions, proving that "free" AI is just a lure for a compute trap.
By Imani Sutton ·
While Donald Trump mandates a cosmetic rebrand at the White House, tech executives sign a voluntary safety pact that avoids real statutory enforcement.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
President Trump traded mandatory safety rules for a voluntary industry pledge and a marketing rebrand, leaving no mechanism to police frontier models when they fail.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Trump signed a voluntary agreement with tech CEOs that replaces regulation with self-policing, a move that ignores technical risks in favor of branding.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
By ruling out joint ventures with China, President Trump prioritizes technological containment over safety, a move that risks uncoordinated global systems as domestic security concerns grow.
By Tom Beckwith ·
President Donald Trump hosted tech executives for a White House summit to push national AI dominance, ignoring urgent safety warnings and massive infrastructure strains.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·