At the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind held bilateral meetings with heads of state and posed for official photographs in chairs reserved for presidents and prime ministers. Nobody voted for them.
Seattle's City Council voted 9-0 to freeze large-scale AI data center construction — a unanimous rebuke from the city that built the tech industry, driven by 98,000 residents and a coalition with plans far beyond a one-year pause.
The White House is floating a government equity stake in AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic. The companies lobbying for it are the same ones the government is supposed to regulate — and a shareholder has reasons a regulator should not have.
New York's legislature just passed the first state-level moratorium on hyperscale datacenter construction. Governor Hochul will decide if it becomes law — and whether democratic governments still have the power to say no to Big Tech's energy demands.
Eighty-six percent of voters in Monterey Park, California approved an outright ban on data centers — the first voter-passed prohibition in U.S. history. The AI infrastructure industry built its expansion on the assumption that communities had no real power to refuse. That assumption just failed its
Tech billionaires lost the governor's race but won where it counts — in the down-ballot contests that control California's legislature, its regulatory agencies, and the AI policy agenda that the rest of the country is watching.
A forthcoming White House AI executive order would give federal agencies early access to the most powerful AI systems 90 days before public release — with no independent safety review and a voluntary framework AI companies can abandon at will.
Since ChatGPT's release, "excellent" grades in AI-compatible courses have risen 30% at one selective university. The deeper problem is that higher education built a credentialing system it can no longer defend.
The Justice Department's intervention in xAI's lawsuit against Colorado isn't primarily a constitutional event. It's a market-shaping one — and the beneficiaries are exactly who you'd expect.
A new Anthropic study of over a million conversations finds that experienced AI users outperform newcomers by 10 percent — a gap that compounds over time and is already tracking existing class lines. No policy is designed to close it.
The Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic as a supply chain risk. The White House is negotiating access to its most dangerous AI anyway. This is not a contradiction — it's a procurement war.
OpenAI detected the Tumbler Ridge shooter's account, suspended it, and then decided — by its own internal standard, reviewed by no one — that the threat didn't require a call to police. Eight people died. The real failure isn't the calibration. It's that a private company was making this call at all
From Texas Republicans to California teachers, communities across the U.S. are organizing against an unregulated AI datacenter boom — and the bipartisan coalition forming around local water, power, and autonomy is one the industry wasn't built to handle.
Justice Sotomayor called AI prediction of Supreme Court rulings 'a very bad thing.' She's right — but the real problem isn't that the court is predictable. It's what that predictability proves about whether law or ideology is driving the decisions.
From the EU's AI Act to China's algorithmic controls, governments worldwide are racing to regulate artificial intelligence. Here's where AI regulation stands in 2025—and what's coming next.
More than 100 Baidu robotaxis stopped working simultaneously on public roads, and the company said nothing. The malfunction is less alarming than the accountability gap it exposed.