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decision 2026-04-17

Canada Wants to Label AI Content. The Problem Is Everything Is AI Content Now.

A House of Commons committee wants mandatory labels on AI-generated material. The recommendation is reasonable. The implementation problem is that the boundary between AI-assisted and AI-generated has already dissolved.

power 2026-04-17

Congress Is Trying to Lock China Out of the Chip Industry. Nvidia Says That's the Wrong Move.

The MATCH Act would block China from buying the machines that make advanced chips. Jensen Huang says restricting China just makes it build faster.

ethics 2026-04-16

AI Companies Trained on Artists' Work. Now Everyone Is Arguing About Who Owns What.

The Supreme Court declined to rule on AI-generated copyright. Anthropic settled with authors for $1.5 billion. Chicken Soup for the Soul sued eight AI companies at once. The law has not kept up.

power 2026-04-16

Banned by the Government, Worth $800 Billion

The Pentagon tried to kill Anthropic's federal business. Instead it handed the company a brand identity and a revenue surge.

power 2026-04-16

The First State to Say No to AI

Maine just passed the nation's first statewide moratorium on AI data centers. The governor hasn't signed it yet, and that's where the real story begins.

power 2026-04-14

Anthropic's AI Can Break Your Bank

Mythos finds thousands of zero-day exploits autonomously. Washington called an emergency meeting with bank CEOs. Nobody knows whether to use it or ban it.

decision 2026-04-14

LAUSD Bought Peace at 2 A.M. Now the Bills Come Due

The Los Angeles school district averted a coordinated strike by 70,000 workers with a 24% wage increase. Support staff earning $35,500 a year won. The district buried protections against AI in the contract and nobody noticed.

power 2026-04-14

NVIDIA Just Released the First AI Models Built to Fix Quantum Computing's Core Problem

NVIDIA's Ising family is the first open AI model suite for quantum error correction. It is not a quantum computer. It is the software that makes quantum computers worth building.

power 2026-04-12

The Export Control Bottleneck

Staffing losses and tighter oversight inside the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security have turned AI chip export licenses into months-long waits. The US is blocking its own allies.

power 2026-04-12

The Model You Cannot Use

Anthropic built its most capable AI and refused to release it publicly. Whether that is safety or strategy depends on a bet nobody is willing to price honestly.

power 2026-04-12

Regulate the Machine or Regulate the Person

Both parties want to regulate AI but disagree on the target: Republicans want to control how the technology is built; Democrats want to control how individuals misuse it. The difference is not semantic.

power 2026-04-11

Supremely Intelligent Teenagers

Seventy-nine percent of enterprises are running AI agents. Eleven percent have security approval for what those agents can do. The gap is not a growing pain.

power 2026-04-11

Two Parties, Two Theories of What AI Is

Both parties want to regulate AI, but they disagree on whether the problem is the technology itself or what people do with it, and that gap cannot be bridged.

power 2026-04-10

The Government Just Told Banks an AI Model Is a Systemic Risk

When the Treasury Secretary and the Fed Chair summon Wall Street CEOs in secret over an AI model's capabilities, they are saying something they cannot say publicly: this technology can already break things we cannot fix.

power 2026-04-09

Zero Federal AI Laws, 1,561 State Bills, and a White House Framework Nobody Has to Follow

The US has no binding AI law while the EU enforces its Act across 27 countries. The federal-state collision is now the biggest AI governance story in the world.

power 2026-04-09

Saudi Arabia Killed The Line and Built a Data Center Instead

MBS suspended his $500 billion linear city after 1.4% completion, pivoted $23 billion to AI infrastructure, and made Elon Musk's Grok the kingdom's national AI layer. The geopolitical bet underneath this is enormous.

power 2026-04-08

Meta's AI Mulligan

A 'ground-up overhaul' with Muse Spark reveals how far behind Meta fell in the AI race. and how desperate they are to catch up.