Mike Allen

Two seemingly contradictory realities are true at once:

Never in the history of industry or inventions have leading companies created entire divisions to un

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gave Axios an eye-opening preview of the power and the risks of coming AI models, including his own Astra, which is expected to be released any day n

Forget energy. Forget chips. Forget China. The most clear and present danger to AI and any AI-related economic boom is rapidly rising public opposition to U.S. data centers. Republicans and AI CEOs are in full panic mode watching politicians and the public turn on the physical engines of AI growth. In private, they tell us they can't find a compelling message to shift opinion fast enough. Their nightmare—a political and economic daisy chain that cripples the AI revolution—is already taking shape:

We ask almost every AI architect and leader the same thing in private: What AI risk worries you most? Almost all of them fire back the same response: a killer pathogen, spreading too silently, widely and quickly to stop. The rare agreement among AI experts flows from the belief these advanced models could help a bad actor create a deadly pathogen before the government and industry perfect detection and prevention systems. This isn't a likely scenario.

Three AI trends are accelerating and colliding, forcing government, business and investors to rethink strategies in real t

The Five Eyes intelligence alliance issued a rare joint warning this week that frontier AI capable of crippling governments and businesses is close.

We're living through the most disorienting societal moment since World War II.

Six facts. No hyperbole. All in the past 60 days.

Young Americans are scared of more than AI. They're downright panicky about finding a job at all.