The White House finalized an AI safety testing framework — then decided only the companies being tested would see the results. That's not oversight. It's a liability shield built with industry input.
A new GAO report finds Amazon workers' use of food assistance nearly tripled as the company's profits grew by $66 billion. This is not a poverty wages story — it is a corporate subsidy story, and taxpayers are the ones writing the check.
Twelve state attorneys general are suing to block the Warner Bros.-Paramount merger after the Trump administration waved it through. The case is a direct indictment of how federal antitrust enforcement is being selectively applied.
A contractor building Meta's AI datacenter flushed bacteria-contaminated water into Cheyenne's public sewers. The city rewrote its rules after. That sequence — violation first, regulation second — is exactly how the AI infrastructure boom is managing its environmental costs.
Political appointees are overruling career DOJ attorneys to clear major corporate mergers — and the consolidation they enable will raise prices on flights and at the pump in ways that cannot be undone once the deals close.
Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are reporting rising emissions and water use as AI infrastructure expands — while disclosing only what they choose. The real story isn't the gap between companies. It's why no law exists to close it.
European regulators are threatening Meta with fines over features like infinite scroll that they say engineer compulsive use. The more important question is why the country where these platforms were built has spent twenty years doing nothing about it.
U.S. rare earth miners backed by the Trump administration are selling their output to Japan and South Korea because domestic buyers don't exist. The reshoring strategy funded extraction — and skipped everything that comes after.
The Commerce Department cleared OpenAI's GPT-5.6 for public release through private meetings with company staff — before the administration's own AI safety standards have been written. That process is now the template.
Peer-reviewed research links private equity hospital acquisitions to more than 20,000 excess deaths. Regulators have had the data for years. The industry kept acquiring.
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.
Wall Street celebrated a US-Iran peace deal on Monday with a 4% drop in Brent crude and record stock closes. No sanctions have lifted. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed. The market is pricing in a Truth Social post.
A new Oxfam analysis finds 41 G7 energy billionaires gained $23.5 billion — $300 million per day — since the US-Israeli war against Iran began, while a UN projection estimates 32 million people will be pushed into poverty by the same conflict. The transfer of wealth is not coincidental. It is struct
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.
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