SpaceX is racing toward a stock market debut at a $1.75 trillion valuation. A significant share of that number is built on federal contracts awarded by agencies whose decisions are shaped by the company's owner — who also works inside the government.
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.
Ford just launched a $2 billion energy subsidiary to power AI data centers. The electricity gold rush is real — and so is the $40 billion cancellation wave it's already producing. The question isn't whether the boom is happening. It's who pays when it breaks.
Federal Reserve officials are refusing to accept AI productivity gains as a basis for monetary policy — and their pushback exposes who actually bears the cost when tech industry promises outpace delivery.
The SEC's three Republican commissioners have formally moved to kill the 2024 climate disclosure rule. The real casualty isn't climate policy — it's the mechanism that would have let investors verify whether corporate climate pledges were real.
We told you about the people cashing in on war. Here's the quieter version, the one happening in an election year: the operatives who run the campaigns, quietly wagering on the races they control — with information you won't see until it's too late to matter.
On prediction markets like Polymarket, you can wager real money on whether the U.S. is about to bomb someone. The unsettling part isn't that people do it. It's how rarely they lose.
The Gulf and the Pacific are sending the same message: too much value and too much vulnerability concentrated in too few places. The case for sovereign, decentralized infrastructure — now.
Airlines for America CEO Chris Sununu says Spirit's bankruptcy proves regulators should approve more airline mergers. His members are the carriers that benefit most when budget competitors disappear.
Amazon's dominance over Western retail isn't a story about innovation. It's the result of predatory pricing, systematic regulatory capture, and two decades of antitrust enforcement that prioritized short-term consumer prices over competitive market structure — until the competition was already gone.
More than half of U.S. business leaders are cutting employee benefits this year, with many citing AI investment as the reason. But the workers losing parental leave and retirement matches aren't the ones making that tradeoff.
Testing found Xinjiang-linked cotton in 16 of 20 Labubu dolls sold in the U.S. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act was supposed to make this impossible. The gap between the law's intent and its enforcement is where the dolls come in.
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.
Four Federal Reserve officials dissented at the same policy meeting — the most since 1992. Three wanted to remove language implying future cuts; one wanted cuts now. The split is what happens when a president wants cheap money during a war that is already driving inflation.
Polymarket is seeking $400 million at a $15 billion valuation, with Middle East conflict betting driving its growth. The platform's business model — and the insider trading concerns it has attracted — have drawn no regulatory response.
Justin Sun's $45 million lawsuit against the Trump family's World Liberty Financial alleges his crypto tokens were frozen and held hostage — exposing how the president's commercial empire operates in a regulatory vacuum no one has moved to fill.