President Donald Trump asked Google to rename the Atlantic Ocean after himself, but CEO Sundar Pichai refused, proving that geography resists unilateral political whims.
By Daniel Okafor ·
As Google infrastructure chief Amin Vahdat reveals the constant failures of giant AI clusters on Sequoia Capital, we must audit this capex boom against local payrolls.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
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 ·
As tech giants push municipal energy systems to the brink, governments must force AI developers to pay for their power infrastructure instead of burdening working taxpayers.
By Maya Ellison ·
Donald Trump announced plans for an AI Force and an artificial intelligence tsar, but substituting law enforcement for technical oversight creates a policy that is sellable without being shippable.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
In my childhood in Marseille, we learned early that a levee is only as strong as its weakest point, and once the water finds a crack, the entire system is compromised.
By Sophie Naimi ·
When the man who built the foundation of a technology tells you that you have "maybe a year" before the world spirals out of control, you do not call it a "hoax." Yet, as reported…
By Sophie Naimi ·
DHH's use of AI agents to build an operating system promises liberation from bureaucracy but the software becomes a black box.
By Elena Rossi ·
The "Surprise and Shine" event at Apple Park was less a product launch and more a masterclass in mercantile patience.
By Bram de Vries ·
Intellectual milestones in mathematics and AGI are high-status wins that fail to disrupt the practical realities of physical labor.
By Bram de Vries ·