infrastructure

4 briefs

power 2026-05-12

Pump Relief as Political Triage

Gas hit $4.52. Trump wants to kill the gas tax. Congress needs to pass it. The Highway Trust Fund will pay.

power 2026-05-01

CISA Lost a Third of Its Staff. Cyber Partnerships Are at a Standstill. The Midterms Are Six Months Away.

The agency responsible for protecting US critical infrastructure and election systems has been hollowed out just as the 2026 midterms approach, and the House just passed a funding bill that cuts it further.

power 2026-04-25

Meta Bets Billions on AWS Chips While Cutting 8,000 Jobs

The agentic AI era needs CPUs more than GPUs, and that changes who controls the infrastructure of artificial intelligence.

power 2026-04-21

Anthropic Is Paying Amazon $100 Billion to Not Run Out of Computers

The $5 billion headline understates what actually happened: Anthropic has pledged its entire infrastructure future to AWS for a decade in exchange for being allowed to keep growing.