Disinformation researchers are suing Marco Rubio — and the mechanism in the…
The fight over online safety research is no longer a fight about content moderation.
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AI doesn’t understand the world yet, and the billion-dollar race to fix that shows the industry is…
AI doesn't understand anything yet.
Why some non-English languages require far more AI tokens, and how Indian…
When Vivek Raghavan saw ChatGPT for the first time, he faced a choice that defines the AI era for most of the world's population.
The economic variable that may determine whether AI creates or destroys jobs — and…
The question everyone asks about AI and jobs is the wrong question.
SpaceX, Amazon, and Google want orbital data centers — four engineering barriers…
Three years ago, when I moved to Singapore for wealth accumulation and business scaling, I was struck by the sheer physical presence of the data infrastructure around me.
The $50 AI revolution: Why smaller models built for sovereignty may matter more…
The cost of building a frontier AI model has crossed significant financial thresholds in training compute alone, and the countries that cannot pay that price are not waiting around for charity.
A US government iPhone hacking tool has gone feral — and 42,000 devices are…
A sophisticated iPhone hacking toolkit called Coruna — likely developed by US government contractors — has proliferated from American intelligence through Russian espionage operations to cybercriminals, infecting an estimated 42,000 devices and exposing the structural contradictions of government-funded offensive cyber capabilities.
There’s a reason upward mobility feels impossible — the infrastructure that…
The feeling that upward mobility is impossible isn't a personal failing — it's a signal produced by layered systems of credentialing, housing, networks, and tax architecture designed to compound advantage for those who already have it.
The billionaire bunker problem: how the people building AI safety tools are…
The people building the most consequential AI systems are also the ones buying escape plans from the world those systems will reshape. This isn't just hypocrisy — it reveals a structural problem about who bears the risks of transformative technology and who gets to walk away.