Zachary Basu

President Trump, Big AI go all-in together

President Trump and Big AI have fused their futures around four enormous bets. 

  1. The economic bet: That trillions poured into chips, data centers and power will create a productivity engine powerful enough to fuel a new Industrial Revolution.

  2. The regulation bet: That Washington can clear the runway for an AI takeoff while leaving the companies largely responsible for policing themselves.

  3. The safety bet: That AI can grow vastly more powerful without becoming vastly harder to control.

Tenacious AI agents expose dark side of machine autonomy

New revelations about "rogue" AI agents have exposed a dystopian hazard: Give an agent a goal, and it may decide that hacking, de

Revenge of the AI bubble

The AI bubble debate has lurched through at least three frenzied phases in the span of three years:

Silicon Valley is building its own news-industrial complex

One of Silicon Valley's most powerful venture firms helped launch a 24/7 livestream on X, joining a wav

Republicans embrace speech limits

President Donald Trump and MAGA spent years lampooning censorship, discrimination against conservatives, and progressive "cancel culture." Now in power—and riding an outpouring of grief and fury over Charlie Kirk's tragic killing—they're enforcing speech codes to punish ideological opponents. Backed by the Trump administration, digital vigilantes are demanding arrests, firings, and deportations for anti-Kirk posts and remarks. Any person who celebrates or mocks Kirk's death—or even criticizes his right-wing views—is being cast as complicit in political violence.

Big Tech's inauguration hangover

America's tech titans backed President Trump's promise of a new "Golden Age" with seven-figure checks, glowing public praise and fr

Former US national security officials claim antitrust could hurt US in China tech race

Twelve former top US national security officials are urging Congress to hit pause on a package of antitrust bills in order to consider how breaking up tech companies could harm the US