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Google’s AI Data Center Is Headed to Space

Google’s AI Data Center Is Headed to Space

Alex Raeburn · Sep 24, 2026 · 10 min read

FBI’s Own Hacking Unit Gets Hit, Raising Fresh Questions About Internal Security

FBI’s Own Hacking Unit Gets Hit, Raising Fresh Questions About Internal Security

Alex Raeburn · Sep 23, 2026 · 10 min read

When AI Policy Becomes Personal: The Lifestyle Tech Stakes Everyone Feels

When AI Policy Becomes Personal: The Lifestyle Tech Stakes Everyone Feels

Christina Hill · Sep 22, 2026 · 10 min read

Trump Tests the Limits of Fox News Loyalty

Trump Tests the Limits of Fox News Loyalty

Rare Ivy · Sep 21, 2026 · 10 min read

Deaths at the Border’s Virtual Wall Raise New Questions About Surveillance and Liability

Deaths at the Border’s Virtual Wall Raise New Questions About Surveillance and Liability

Rare Ivy · Sep 21, 2026 · 10 min read

Why Security Teams Are Drowning in New Vulnerabilities This Fall

Why Security Teams Are Drowning in New Vulnerabilities This Fall

Rare Ivy · Sep 19, 2026 · 11 min read

Why AI Safety Warnings Are Turning Toward Bioweapons

Why AI Safety Warnings Are Turning Toward Bioweapons

Christina Hill · Sep 18, 2026 · 11 min read

RFK Jr. Names Eight New Members to a Task Force With Real Policy Clout

RFK Jr. Names Eight New Members to a Task Force With Real Policy Clout

Alex Raeburn · Sep 17, 2026 · 10 min read

Blanche Flags Court Trouble in the Epstein Files Dispute

Blanche Flags Court Trouble in the Epstein Files Dispute

Rare Ivy · Sep 17, 2026 · 10 min read

Why Macklemore’s Tour Dismissal Set Off a Bigger Argument About Jewish Safety

Why Macklemore’s Tour Dismissal Set Off a Bigger Argument About Jewish Safety

Christina Hill · Sep 16, 2026 · 11 min read

The Government Won’t Rein In AI, and That’s the Point

The Government Won’t Rein In AI, and That’s the Point

Rare Ivy · Sep 15, 2026 · 11 min read

Meta’s Zuckerberg Challenges Anthropic on AI Slowdown, and the Stakes Go Beyond Silicon Valley

Meta’s Zuckerberg Challenges Anthropic on AI Slowdown, and the Stakes Go Beyond Silicon Valley

Christina Hill · Sep 15, 2026 · 11 min read

New York Targets 12 Sites Pushing Celebrity Deepfakes in a High-Profile Enforcement Case

Rare Ivy · Sep 14, 2026 · 10 min read

Alex Bores Starts a High-Dollar Bid to Unite Democrats on AI Rules

Alex Bores Starts a High-Dollar Bid to Unite Democrats on AI Rules

Alex Raeburn · Sep 14, 2026 · 11 min read

When the Biggest Names in AI Start Calling for Caution

When the Biggest Names in AI Start Calling for Caution

Christina Hill · Sep 13, 2026 · 11 min read

George W. Bush’s 9/11 Portraits Are the Strangest Presidential Afterlife Yet

George W. Bush’s 9/11 Portraits Are the Strangest Presidential Afterlife Yet

Rare Ivy · Sep 11, 2026 · 12 min read

Did Giuliani and Mamdani Just Reset New York’s Political Body Language?

Did Giuliani and Mamdani Just Reset New York’s Political Body Language?

Christina Hill · Sep 11, 2026 · 10 min read

A Silent WeChat Worm Raises Fresh Alarm Over Messaging Security

A Silent WeChat Worm Raises Fresh Alarm Over Messaging Security

Alex Raeburn · Sep 11, 2026 · 11 min read

Doctor Doom Praises Seattle’s Camera State in a Strange Little Civic Moment

Doctor Doom Praises Seattle’s Camera State in a Strange Little Civic Moment

Christina Hill · Sep 10, 2026 · 10 min read

Trump Ties a $5,000 Pledge to Republican Midterm Wins

Trump Ties a $5,000 Pledge to Republican Midterm Wins

Alex Raeburn · Sep 09, 2026 · 11 min read

Matt Mullenweg on Leave: What Automattic’s Sudden Move Signals Next

Matt Mullenweg on Leave: What Automattic’s Sudden Move Signals Next

Christina Hill · Sep 09, 2026 · 10 min read

How Seriously Should We Take the Latest AI Warnings?

How Seriously Should We Take the Latest AI Warnings?

Rare Ivy · Sep 09, 2026 · 12 min read

White House Hits Canadian Imports as Trade Fight Deepens

White House Hits Canadian Imports as Trade Fight Deepens

Alex Raeburn · Sep 08, 2026 · 11 min read

What Trump’s Silence Means for UK Sanctions on Israeli Settlements

What Trump’s Silence Means for UK Sanctions on Israeli Settlements

Rare Ivy · Sep 08, 2026 · 10 min read

The Race to Find Underground Hydrogen Is On

The Race to Find Underground Hydrogen Is On

Christina Hill · Sep 07, 2026 · 11 min read

Google’s Win Is Bigger Than One Court Fight

Google’s Win Is Bigger Than One Court Fight

Alex Raeburn · Sep 07, 2026 · 10 min read

Can Bernie Sanders Turn Progressive Energy Into Another Democratic Win?

Can Bernie Sanders Turn Progressive Energy Into Another Democratic Win?

Rare Ivy · Sep 06, 2026 · 12 min read

AfD’s Big Win in a German State Raises the Stakes for Coalition Politics

AfD’s Big Win in a German State Raises the Stakes for Coalition Politics

Rare Ivy · Sep 06, 2026 · 10 min read

The New Politics of AI Policy Is Less About Hype and More About Enforcement

The New Politics of AI Policy Is Less About Hype and More About Enforcement

Christina Hill · Sep 05, 2026 · 11 min read

How Battlefield Data Is Teaching Machines to Read War

How Battlefield Data Is Teaching Machines to Read War

Alex Raeburn · Sep 04, 2026 · 12 min read

OpenAI Policy Move Puts New Pressure on Europe’s AI Rulebook

OpenAI Policy Move Puts New Pressure on Europe’s AI Rulebook

Rare Ivy · Sep 03, 2026 · 11 min read

AI Policy Tightens as Governments Rework the Rules of Deployment

AI Policy Tightens as Governments Rework the Rules of Deployment

Alex Raeburn · Sep 02, 2026 · 11 min read

Tim Cook’s Exit Line Is Coming Into Focus at Apple

Tim Cook’s Exit Line Is Coming Into Focus at Apple

Alex Raeburn · Sep 01, 2026 · 11 min read

The New Rules of Tech Power Are Being Written in Plain Sight

The New Rules of Tech Power Are Being Written in Plain Sight

Rare Ivy · Sep 01, 2026 · 9 min read

Why Tech Firms Are Suddenly Talking Like Utilities Again

Why Tech Firms Are Suddenly Talking Like Utilities Again

Rare Ivy · Aug 31, 2026 · 11 min read

How a Secretive Longevity Bet and a Smarter Grid Became the Week’s Tech Story

How a Secretive Longevity Bet and a Smarter Grid Became the Week’s Tech Story

Rare Ivy · Aug 28, 2026 · 9 min read

Can Prediction Markets Survive the State Crackdown?

Can Prediction Markets Survive the State Crackdown?

Christina Hill · Aug 28, 2026 · 11 min read

Nvidia’s Hugging Face Deal Could Put It at the Center of Open AI Distribution

Nvidia’s Hugging Face Deal Could Put It at the Center of Open AI Distribution

Christina Hill · Aug 27, 2026 · 11 min read

Can Republicans Police Their Own After the Nazi Staffer Fallout?

Can Republicans Police Their Own After the Nazi Staffer Fallout?

Alex Raeburn · Aug 27, 2026 · 10 min read

AI Ghosts Are Slipping Into Academic Journals

AI Ghosts Are Slipping Into Academic Journals

Alex Raeburn · Aug 27, 2026 · 11 min read

Why Phantom Data Centers Are Distorting Britain’s Power Planning

Why Phantom Data Centers Are Distorting Britain’s Power Planning

Rare Ivy · Aug 26, 2026 · 11 min read

Darline Becomes the Latest Test of Republican Discipline in Washington

Darline Becomes the Latest Test of Republican Discipline in Washington

Christina Hill · Aug 26, 2026 · 11 min read

What Bill Gates Means When He Says AI Has Passed the Danger Zone

What Bill Gates Means When He Says AI Has Passed the Danger Zone

Christina Hill · Aug 25, 2026 · 12 min read

The Border Message Is Settling In. ICE Remains the Part Democrats Can’t Quite Control.

The Border Message Is Settling In. ICE Remains the Part Democrats Can’t Quite Control.

Rare Ivy · Aug 23, 2026 · 12 min read

Space Mirrors Raise a Fresh Geoengineering Alarm as AI Drug Breakthroughs Test Attribution

Space Mirrors Raise a Fresh Geoengineering Alarm as AI Drug Breakthroughs Test Attribution

Alex Raeburn · Aug 22, 2026 · 11 min read

Meta Whistleblower Says Zuckerberg Misled the Public on Child Safety

Meta Whistleblower Says Zuckerberg Misled the Public on Child Safety

Christina Hill · Aug 21, 2026 · 11 min read

How an Inland City Became China’s Quiet AI Powerhouse

How an Inland City Became China’s Quiet AI Powerhouse

Alex Raeburn · Aug 21, 2026 · 11 min read

The English County That Told Palantir No

The English County That Told Palantir No

Alex Raeburn · Aug 20, 2026 · 11 min read

NASA Pulls the Plug on the Swift Gamma-Ray Observatory Rescue

NASA Pulls the Plug on the Swift Gamma-Ray Observatory Rescue

Rare Ivy · Aug 19, 2026 · 11 min read

Why Florida Voters Are Turning Away from the Old Political Scripts

Why Florida Voters Are Turning Away from the Old Political Scripts

Alex Raeburn · Aug 18, 2026 · 11 min read

The Digital Culture Battle Over Location Sharing Is Getting More Political

The Digital Culture Battle Over Location Sharing Is Getting More Political

Christina Hill · Aug 18, 2026 · 12 min read

How Town Is Building a Self-Organizing Company

How Town Is Building a Self-Organizing Company

Christina Hill · Aug 17, 2026 · 10 min read

Pregnant People Face a New Air Threat as Wildfire Smoke Overtakes Traffic Emissions

Pregnant People Face a New Air Threat as Wildfire Smoke Overtakes Traffic Emissions

Alex Raeburn · Aug 16, 2026 · 11 min read

Google Gives Students Access to Gemini Through Classroom

Google Gives Students Access to Gemini Through Classroom

Rare Ivy · Aug 15, 2026 · 10 min read

Trump Turns a Navy Complaint Into a Political Moment

Trump Turns a Navy Complaint Into a Political Moment

Alex Raeburn · Aug 14, 2026 · 11 min read

The New Tech-Power Fight Over AI Standards Is Just Getting Started

The New Tech-Power Fight Over AI Standards Is Just Getting Started

Rare Ivy · Aug 14, 2026 · 11 min read

Government-Backed AI Training Targets Young Jobseekers With New Boot Camps

Government-Backed AI Training Targets Young Jobseekers With New Boot Camps

Christina Hill · Aug 14, 2026 · 11 min read

What an AI Slop Detector Can Actually Catch—and What It Misses

What an AI Slop Detector Can Actually Catch—and What It Misses

Christina Hill · Aug 13, 2026 · 10 min read

The Lakers’ $12.5 Billion Deal Reshapes the NBA’s Ownership Map

The Lakers’ $12.5 Billion Deal Reshapes the NBA’s Ownership Map

Rare Ivy · Aug 12, 2026 · 11 min read

Inside the New AI Policy Fight Taking Shape in Washington

Inside the New AI Policy Fight Taking Shape in Washington

Alex Raeburn · Aug 11, 2026 · 12 min read

Can Progressives Pull Off a Landmark Win Without Their Top Stars?

Can Progressives Pull Off a Landmark Win Without Their Top Stars?

Alex Raeburn · Aug 11, 2026 · 11 min read

Tech Policy Takes Center Stage as Platforms Brace for the Next Round of Rules

Tech Policy Takes Center Stage as Platforms Brace for the Next Round of Rules

Alex Raeburn · Aug 09, 2026 · 12 min read

Flock’s New Proposal Blurs the Line Between Ride-Hailing and Public Surveillance

Flock’s New Proposal Blurs the Line Between Ride-Hailing and Public Surveillance

Alex Raeburn · Aug 09, 2026 · 11 min read

Docker launches disposable sandboxes for AI agents

Docker launches disposable sandboxes for AI agents

Christina Hill · Aug 09, 2026 · 10 min read

What Happens When a City’s Data Center Battle Leaves the Council Chamber

What Happens When a City’s Data Center Battle Leaves the Council Chamber

Rare Ivy · Aug 08, 2026 · 10 min read

Explicit Deepfakes of Children Put UK Schools, Platforms and Regulators on the Same Clock

Explicit Deepfakes of Children Put UK Schools, Platforms and Regulators on the Same Clock

Alex Raeburn · Aug 08, 2026 · 10 min read

The First Virus Built by AI Exposes a New Biosecurity Problem

The First Virus Built by AI Exposes a New Biosecurity Problem

Alex Raeburn · Aug 07, 2026 · 11 min read

Mythos Tightens Defenses After a Social Engineering Push Exposes an AI Policy Weak Spot

Mythos Tightens Defenses After a Social Engineering Push Exposes an AI Policy Weak Spot

Christina Hill · Aug 07, 2026 · 10 min read

The Quiet Shift in Lifestyle Tech That Puts More Power in Users’ Hands

The Quiet Shift in Lifestyle Tech That Puts More Power in Users’ Hands

Christina Hill · Aug 05, 2026 · 11 min read

How Apple’s Private Relay Broke Its Own Privacy Pitch

How Apple’s Private Relay Broke Its Own Privacy Pitch

Rare Ivy · Aug 05, 2026 · 11 min read

What Happens When a Trump Official Tells the Truth

What Happens When a Trump Official Tells the Truth

Alex Raeburn · Aug 04, 2026 · 11 min read

Can an AI Notetaker Stay Useful Without Becoming a Surveillance Tool?

Can an AI Notetaker Stay Useful Without Becoming a Surveillance Tool?

Christina Hill · Aug 04, 2026 · 11 min read

The Next Battle Over AI Is About Power, Not Just Products

The Next Battle Over AI Is About Power, Not Just Products

Christina Hill · Aug 03, 2026 · 11 min read

The New Politics of AI Slop on Social Platforms

The New Politics of AI Slop on Social Platforms

Alex Raeburn · Aug 03, 2026 · 11 min read

A second satellite now has to save NASA’s Swift mission

A second satellite now has to save NASA’s Swift mission

Rare Ivy · Aug 02, 2026 · 11 min read

What a Moon Quarantine Would Mean for the Next Wave of Space Exploration

What a Moon Quarantine Would Mean for the Next Wave of Space Exploration

Alex Raeburn · Aug 01, 2026 · 11 min read

What This Week’s AI Decision Means for Big Tech, Small Apps, and Everyone in Between

What This Week’s AI Decision Means for Big Tech, Small Apps, and Everyone in Between

Alex Raeburn · Jul 31, 2026 · 11 min read

Can the FCC Police Speech Without Policing Politics? Brendan Carr Tests the Line

Can the FCC Police Speech Without Policing Politics? Brendan Carr Tests the Line

Alex Raeburn · Jul 30, 2026 · 11 min read

Why Brussels Is Suddenly Worried About U.S. Meddling in European Elections

Why Brussels Is Suddenly Worried About U.S. Meddling in European Elections

Rare Ivy · Jul 29, 2026 · 11 min read

What the El-Sayed Leak Reveals About Campaign Risk in the Age of Screens

What the El-Sayed Leak Reveals About Campaign Risk in the Age of Screens

Rare Ivy · Jul 29, 2026 · 12 min read

Can You Be Arrested for Clapping at a Public Meeting? One Protester Says Yes

Can You Be Arrested for Clapping at a Public Meeting? One Protester Says Yes

Christina Hill · Jul 29, 2026 · 10 min read

Will This New AI Decision Change the Apps People Use Every Day?

Will This New AI Decision Change the Apps People Use Every Day?

Christina Hill · Jul 28, 2026 · 12 min read

Why This Week’s Tech Policy Move Matters Beyond Silicon Valley

Why This Week’s Tech Policy Move Matters Beyond Silicon Valley

Alex Raeburn · Jul 28, 2026 · 11 min read

Stevens Gets His Clarification, El-Sayed Gets the Last Word

Stevens Gets His Clarification, El-Sayed Gets the Last Word

Christina Hill · Jul 28, 2026 · 10 min read

Why Startups Are Paying More Than They Think

Why Startups Are Paying More Than They Think

Rare Ivy · Jul 25, 2026 · 11 min read

Can Paxton Turn South Texas Red Without Breaking Trump’s Coalition?

Can Paxton Turn South Texas Red Without Breaking Trump’s Coalition?

Alex Raeburn · Jul 25, 2026 · 11 min read

Trump Uses the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to Condemn Violence and Attack the Press

Trump Uses the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to Condemn Violence and Attack the Press

Christina Hill · Jul 24, 2026 · 11 min read

Congress Takes Aim at AI With a Kill Switch Proposal

Congress Takes Aim at AI With a Kill Switch Proposal

Christina Hill · Jul 24, 2026 · 12 min read

The Paramount Merger Is Running Into Politics, Media Pressure, and a State-Level Wall

The Paramount Merger Is Running Into Politics, Media Pressure, and a State-Level Wall

Alex Raeburn · Jul 23, 2026 · 10 min read

Digital Culture Meets Politics as Tech Companies Face Fresh Policy Pressure

Digital Culture Meets Politics as Tech Companies Face Fresh Policy Pressure

Alex Raeburn · Jul 23, 2026 · 11 min read

What NASA’s New Telescope and OpenAI’s Hacker Bot Say About the Next Wave of Tech Power

What NASA’s New Telescope and OpenAI’s Hacker Bot Say About the Next Wave of Tech Power

Christina Hill · Jul 22, 2026 · 11 min read

Olive Garden’s Never-Ending Pasta Is Now a Voting Rights Story

Olive Garden’s Never-Ending Pasta Is Now a Voting Rights Story

Christina Hill · Jul 21, 2026 · 11 min read

New Orleans Police Quietly Opened the Door to Weaponized Drones

New Orleans Police Quietly Opened the Door to Weaponized Drones

Rare Ivy · Jul 20, 2026 · 10 min read

Nancy Mace’s Senate No Changes the Shape of South Carolina’s Republican Primary

Nancy Mace’s Senate No Changes the Shape of South Carolina’s Republican Primary

Alex Raeburn · Jul 20, 2026 · 10 min read

Meta’s Compute-for-Hire Play With Anthropic Shows How Expensive AI Has Become

Meta’s Compute-for-Hire Play With Anthropic Shows How Expensive AI Has Become

Alex Raeburn · Jul 18, 2026 · 10 min read

AI Policy’s Next Test: What Happens to the People Left Behind?

AI Policy’s Next Test: What Happens to the People Left Behind?

Alex Raeburn · Jul 18, 2026 · 12 min read

Moonshot AI’s Kimi Model Shows How Fast China’s AI Ambitions Are Maturing

Moonshot AI’s Kimi Model Shows How Fast China’s AI Ambitions Are Maturing

Rare Ivy · Jul 17, 2026 · 11 min read

China’s Latest Frontier Model Puts Pressure on the Rest of the AI Pack

China’s Latest Frontier Model Puts Pressure on the Rest of the AI Pack

Christina Hill · Jul 17, 2026 · 12 min read

Mid-Career Stalls Are Getting Harder to Ignore

Mid-Career Stalls Are Getting Harder to Ignore

Rare Ivy · Jul 16, 2026 · 12 min read

Inside the Controversial Process Democrats Are Using to Replace Graham Platner

Inside the Controversial Process Democrats Are Using to Replace Graham Platner

Rare Ivy · Jul 16, 2026 · 11 min read