Gavin Newsom sells out healthcare to protect billionaires
Governor Gavin Newsom joins tech billionaires to crush Proposition 40, sacrificing healthcare for millions of working families to fund his own presidential ambitions.
By Maya Ellison ·
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Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin are gaming California's Prop 40
As billionaires use stock deals and millions in spending to dodge a 5% wealth tax, California voters must decide if healthcare is worth more than oligarchs' hoards.
By Maya Ellison ·
Mark Zuckerberg and the erosion of Meta’s corporate discipline
Mark Zuckerberg is decoupling control from liability at Meta, while Apple and Trevor Milton ignore market rules, showing a dangerous trend toward the privatization of power and socialization of risk.
By Klaus Berger ·
Tom Tiffany and David Crowley fail the $3 billion payroll test
David Crowley and Tom Tiffany sparred over a $3 billion budget surplus in their only debate, but neither candidate offered a concrete plan to grow durable industrial payroll.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
Trump rebrands AI at the White House with a toothless accord
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 renames AI as SI in a sellable but not shippable order
President Trump ordered federal agencies to replace artificial intelligence with super intelligence, trading technical reality for a rebranding campaign that lacks the enforcement machinery to change how technology actually works.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Meta hides invasive data extraction behind a cute Muse charm
Mark Zuckerberg launched Meta's cute Muse charm to disarm privacy fears, but wrapping an always-on data collection node in a plastic toy cannot overcome thermal limits or user distrust.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
John Coogan highlights Meta's AI, but the grid pays the price
As John Coogan explains Meta's strategy to run free AI agents on TBPN, consumers must confront how ad-supported cloud computing shifts infrastructure costs onto local power bills.
By Imani Sutton ·
Mark Zuckerberg pushing back on AI slowdowns is a deeper illusion
TBPN argues that Mark Zuckerberg's vision of self-regulating AI labs is a deliberate sidestepping of existential risk.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
Zuckerberg's AI promise masks private leverage at Koolau Ranch
The spectacle is always the same: the billionaire, armed with an AI manifesto, assures us that the future belongs to everyone.
By Emilio Quesada ·
Zuckerberg's "Future Is For Everyone" is just infrastructure control
Mark Zuckerberg dropped a 6,500-word essay titled "The Future Is For Everyone," which is less an optimistic vision and more a masterclass in deflection.
By Josie Calloway ·
Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years
The scale of the pronouncements coming out of Silicon Valley these days is breathtaking—a dizzying cascade of "super-intelligence," "personalized agents," and inevitable global transformation.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Meta cash flow craters as Zuckerberg's AI spending spree accelerates
The numbers, always the cold language of power, tell a story far removed from progress.
By Sophie Naimi ·