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The Shadow Docket Catches Up
A divided appeals court sent the DOGE-Social Security data case back to district court. In the 89 pages of competing opinions, a Supreme Court justice's original warning about unfettered data access looks more prescient than when she wrote it.
The Boycott That Became a Federal Case
The FTC is in settlement talks with major ad agencies over whether they illegally coordinated to withhold ad spending from X. Whether or not the underlying conduct was illegal, the investigation itself tells you who has power at the FTC right now.
The Chip Factory That Has To Be Real
Musk's Terafab now has Intel as a partner, a $20-25B price tag, and a goal of 1 terawatt of computing per year. TSMC just had its best quarter ever. Whether TeraFab can actually close the gap is a question nobody in the announcement has answered.
xAI Is Arguing That Math Is Speech. If It Wins, AI Becomes Constitutionally Unregulateable.
The claim that a language model's probability distributions are protected expression under the First Amendment would create a constitutional black box around every AI system in America.
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.