The noise kept getting louder. It became this terribly loud, high-pitched noise—and that’s along with the lower tone rumbling. I started reaching out to city officials. They’d say, “Yeah, we know it’s a problem. But it will be better next week.” That’s a phrase they kept repeating: “It will be better next week.” It’s never […]
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Covering Climate Now welcomes this opportunity, and we urge fellow journalists around the world to consider pursuing it, as well. We find Sulzberger’s analysis of the dangers facing our industry and our society persuasive, and highly pertinent to our core concern of how journalism reports on the climate emergency and its solutions. AI, in case […]
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“The tech sector, which is currently flush with investment and capital, is the ultimate example of this taken to the extremes,” said Dennis Tourish, a professor of leadership and organization studies at the University of Sussex. “With all of the money flowing into AI companies in particular at the moment, they are acquiring more and […]
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Deep Fission is also drilling its boreholes at the edge of the Roubidoux aquifer, an underground water source that’s part of the larger Ozark system. While Parsonites get their drinking water from nearby Lake Parsons, the Ozark system is used for commerce, farming, and rural water districts all over the shop. “If something did happen, […]
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The blog post claims that models are trained to “refuse requests for instructions, tactics or planning that could meaningfully enable violence” and that law enforcement would be notified if conversations indicated an “imminent and credible risk to the harm of others.” OpenAI’s Model Spec (the outlines for the intended behavior of the models that power […]
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That is why plaintiffs’ lawyers work on contingency. They absorb enormous financial risk up front in exchange for a percentage of any eventual recovery. And because the economics are so precarious, those lawyers frequently have to make hard decisions about which cases are financially viable enough to justify years of litigation against heavily resourced defendants. […]
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AI evangelists also often speak of the imminent arrival of “the singularity,” a hypothesized future event where artificial intelligence becomes genuinely sentient. Musk, who loves to overpromise and underdeliver, claims that we are in the “very early stages of the singularity right now.” The fear of death quietly stalks much of Musk’s worldview, from rockets […]
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All companies in the pilot program benefited from the same structure, but Valar appears to have enjoyed a particularly close relationship with the former DOGE staffers who were spearheading reforms at the NRC. Valar has company hats that read “Make Nuclear Great Again,” written and laid out in the style we all are familiar with. […]
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Here again there is a gap between public statements and on-the-ground facts. Microsoft’s Community-First Initiative sounds great but does not have any form of independent accountability mechanism built in. OpenAI’s new white paper signals a move toward progressive tech policy, but its president, Greg Brockman, has funneled millions into a SuperPAC opposing state-level AI regulation […]
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“I see the 2010s as the turning point,” Wu told me. Initially, Wu writes in his 2025 book, The Age of Extraction, the web was built on public platforms equivalent to the town square—ARPANET, the National Science Foundation’s NSFNET, and private businesses tamed by antitrust actions (the phone companies and Microsoft). As newer platforms like […]
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For decades, democratic leadership has tried to market its willingness to craft pro-corporate policy as political sophistication. Last summer, 2028 presidential hopeful Ruben Gallego championed the GENIUS Act, a bill that deregulates parts of the cryptocurrency industry, which directly benefits one of Trump’s crypto firms. At a 2025 forum, Gallego repeated a vague, starry-eyed, crypto […]
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Lazonick calls this both shortsighted and backward. By cutting loose the employees who carry institutional memory, judgment, and hard-won skills, companies are tossing out the very knowledge that makes innovation actually work. “For creativity and innovation to happen, you need a workforce that’s equipped, engaged, and actually has a stake in what comes next,” he […]
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When asked if he felt any obligation to tell students about Lonsdale’s extreme politics before the contest, Oyerinde said that he “doesn’t spend time getting into [his] investors’ edgiest, most divisive views.” I also asked Oyerinde how he could justify funding his school with investments from known fascists. “Forget whether or not you agree with […]
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The dangers ChatGPT has posed to young people haven’t only been outward—they have been turned inward, as well. In August 2025, Matthew and Maria Raine filed a wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI on behalf of their 16-year-old son, Adam, who committed suicide in April of that year. In the suit, they claim that ChatGPT had […]
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In the most on-the-nose example, Abundance 2025 also had two literal trade associations that represent major tech firms among its sponsors: Chamber of Progress and the New American Industrial Alliance. The former of these is funded by literally every prominent AI firm in the game, from Marc Andreessen’s a16z to Amazon, Apple, Google, OpenAI, NVIDIA, […]
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