Technology, AI, capital and institutions, examined through who builds systems, who controls them and who benefits.
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The DOJ and 40 state attorneys general have opened a landmark antitrust trial against Live Nation-Ticketmaster, alleging the company's 86% market share in primary ticketing constitutes an illegal monopoly — while Live Nation argues its actual share is 40% and its business simply brings people joy.
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.
The exhaustion you feel after video calls stems from your brain continuously monitoring your own face in real time, activating self-evaluation circuits designed for brief, high-stakes moments rather than hour-long Tuesday standups.
Silicon Valley perfected the aesthetics of revolution while systematically preventing anything revolutionary from taking root. The disruption flows downward; the consolidation flows upward.
OpenAI announced a $40 billion funding round on 31 March 2025, at a $300 billion post-money valuation.
OpenAI has closed a $10 billion funding round at a $300 billion valuation, the largest private capital raise in history, as global enterprise AI spending surges past record levels and competition intensifies across every major market.
Saudi Arabia has announced a $40 billion AI-focused investment fund in partnership with Andreessen Horowitz, marking the Kingdom's most aggressive move yet to transform oil wealth into technological infrastructure and reduce long-term dependence on fossil fuels.
The persistent feeling that you're falling behind has an architecture — a class structure designed to make upward mobility feel achievable while keeping the conditions for genuine class transition extraordinarily rare. Understanding this changes where you direct your energy.
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.
Justin Brown traces a single data point from a soybean farmer's phone in rural India through seventeen corporate servers across nine countries to a hedge fund in Connecticut, revealing the invisible architecture of value extraction that defines the global surveillance economy.
DeepSeek's ultra-cheap AI models have triggered a global price war, forcing OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to slash API costs. The cascading repricing event is reshaping AI economics worldwide, with profound implications for startups, developers in the Global South, and the geopolitics of technology competition.
The people building the most powerful AI systems on Earth don't have any real incentive to make them safe — not because they're bad people, but because the capital structure, competitive dynamics, and geopolitical pressures of the industry make safety structurally subordinate to speed. Understanding that architecture is the first step toward changing it.
