Immigration law is becoming America's quietest censorship tool, and a federal lawsuit is about to test whether courts can still see it
A rarely-used immigration statute is being weaponised to keep researchers out of America.
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AI doesn't understand the world yet, and the billion-dollar race to fix that shows the industry is starting to move beyond the architecture it spent three years selling as the path to general intelligence
AI doesn't understand anything yet.
Disinformation researchers are suing Marco Rubio — and the mechanism in the complaint matters more than the politics
The fight over online safety research is no longer a fight about content moderation.
Why the calmest investors in the world are not actually calm — and what Jon Gray's $26 billion bet on Hilton reveals about the structural conditions everyone mistakes for temperament
The phrase Jon Gray uses for the deal that nearly ended him at Blackstone is not "risky" or "contrarian" or any of the other words private equity people reach for when they want to make a story sound braver in retrospect than it felt at the time.
The tokenization tax: Why AI costs non-English speakers up to 5x more per query, and how India is fighting back
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 why few people are measuring it
The question everyone asks about AI and jobs is the wrong question.
Iran declared AWS, Google, and Microsoft data centers military targets. The legal and strategic fallout is just beginning
In late March 2026, Iran’s military leadership formally declared that AWS, Google, and Microsoft data centers hosting U.S. defense workloads constitute legitimate military targets under international law, and the statement landed with a weight that most people in the cloud industry still haven’t fully absorbed.
Trump's spiritual advisers see Iran strikes as biblical prophecy — and they have institutional power
The Trump administration convened nearly two dozen evangelical leaders for private counsel in the wake of its strikes on Iran, according to an investigation by The Intercept.
This may not be 2022: Why the Iran oil shock hits a US economy with no SPR buffer and no Fed room
The US economy added jobs last year and inflation fell to 2.4% in January, its lowest figure in months, and the White House declared the inflation crisis over.