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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
Podcast
By Ray Dombrowski ·
The moment you realize that your digital neighbor might not be breathing, or even real, something shifts in the air of the internet.
By Alma Cordero ·
The headlines call it Meta’s Day of Reckoning. They talk about $18 billion—a massive number that sounds like enough cash to fund a small county's infrastructure plan for a decade.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
The news that Meta has settled with a coalition of fifty-two attorneys general across the U.S.
By Caroline Ashford ·
The headlines surrounding Meta’s $18 billion settlement with forty-eight US states suggest a decisive victory—a moment where the profit motive finally bowed to public health.
By Klaus Berger ·
The shift in tone from boundless AI prophet to global nervous wreck is almost comical, yet profoundly worrying.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The fundamental failure of Big Tech is rarely one of technical capability; it is always one of moral imagination.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The sheer volume of it is staggering—over a thousand transactions in June alone.
By Aoife Gallagher ·