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How AI systems work, what they get wrong, and what they are doing to everything around them.
Thirty-one states now regulate election deepfakes. In the 2026 midterms, AI ads from states with disclosure laws were less likely to be labelled than ads from states without them. A law nobody enforces is decoration.
AI regulation, election deepfakes and the fight over chips are turning AI into the most contested arena in politics — and the people writing the rules are increasingly the people selling the models.
One year after California signed the first US frontier-AI law, the Speaker of the House says he hopes AI guardrails stay voluntary. Washington is suing states for regulating AI while declining to do it itself.
Capacity prices on America's largest grid are up more than tenfold in four auctions, and data centers are the main reason. A voluntary White House pledge can't un-ring a bill that is already locked in through 2029.
Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Le Chat, Duck.ai, local models, and OMMAIS Chat, which puts a whole panel of models on one question. What each free option is best at, where your data goes, and a quiz to pick one.
There is a pleasingly ancient scene for a modern scandal: the guardian of the citadel discovers that the thing entrusted with guarding it also possessed the key. Safety, having been converted from a method into a marketing adjective, is suddenly less impressive when the…
Collapsing every AI failure into one phrase obscures more than it explains. The distinctions between reliability, security, privacy, and agentic-systems failures are not academic—they determine which solutions actually work.
Detecting novelty across N branches costs N log N with signatures rather than N squared with full states. The architecture is forced, not preferred.
Pointing a different agent at your own framework and telling it to recompute every number from the printed formulas.
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