Europe's landmark AI Act moves from aspirational rulebook to actual enforcement, forcing the industry to discover compliance exists.
Read full article →Two companies claiming to be humanity's firewall against AI risk just publicly disagreed on whether to hit the brakes—and guessed wrong about which one should.
Read full article →Big Tech's capex splurge makes the dot-com bubble look like prudent financial planning.
Read full article →Regulatory agencies finally notice that Andreessen Horowitz and friends have been playing musical chairs with startup governance for decades.
Read full article →The entire trillion-dollar AI boom just discovered its most inconvenient opponent: voters who live near data centers.
Read full article →The retail giant abandons its proprietary payment religion just as the market moved on without it.
Read full article →The education industrial complex discovers it cannot sell four-year insurance policies against six-month technology cycles.
Read full article →The Benotto report reveals that corporate values documents are excellent at making boards feel virtuous while faculty hide their faith.
Read full article →Axios discovers that finite capital going to data centers means less money for literally everything else, then reassures us this is fine.
Read full article →When an industry is too chaotic to fit party talking points, even Congress notices.
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