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.
SpaceX's IPO made Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. More than $15 billion in federal contracts helped build the company that got him there. The public funded the risk. Musk captured the reward.
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
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.