The recent fight over Anthropic’s Mythos frontier model may look like a one-off Washington kerfuffle. It is probably better understood as the latest step in a much longer process. For at least four years, the United States has been trying to shape the AI race with China through
I added three new signals articles this week. Two are related to how to meet the significant electricity demand from AI without making current rates skyrocket. While I think these two signals overall are positive in terms of figuring out how to provide electricity, they also open up new windows
The most interesting AI story this week may not be another private model release. It may be a public bet on a different path. The European Commission has selected a consortium called EUROPA, led by the Italian AI company Domyn, to build an open-source frontier AI model. According to
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission just did something that sounds technical, but matters for the future of AI. FERC ordered the six major regional grid operators under its jurisdiction to explain, or rewrite, their rules for connecting very large new electricity users — including AI data centers — to the transmission grid.
The next data-center fight may not be only about the building. It may be about the power plant next door. Reuters recently reported that data-center developers and their partners are increasingly pursuing “off-grid” or dedicated power plants to serve AI data centers. In plain English: instead of
New technologies are hard to see clearly when they first arrive. Part of the problem is that they do not arrive all at once. They arrive first as demonstrations, products, headlines, fears, promises, market valuations, workplace experiments, and political arguments. Only later do they become routines, institutions, infrastructure, business models,
The most important AI story this week may not be a new model release. It may be a model that suddenly became unavailable. The episode has now been widely reported. Reuters, Axios, Wired, Business Insider, The Verge, and Al Jazeera all covered the federal directive restricting foreign access to Anthropic’
AI may become utility-like before we decide whether to govern it that way. That does not mean AI is the same as electricity, water, sewer, or roads. But the comparison is becoming harder to avoid. AI is moving toward pervasive use across business, education, government, health care, research, shopping,
President Trump’s new AI cybersecurity executive order matters. But it should not be oversold. The White House order is real federal action. It directs agencies to strengthen cybersecurity, create classified benchmarks for advanced AI models, and build a voluntary framework for early federal access to some frontier systems before
Across the country, local governments are not simply banning data centers or waving them through. Many are doing something more careful: pausing approvals, adopting moratoriums, or slowing projects long enough to ask what rules should apply before major infrastructure commitments become irreversible. Pennsylvania’s new Governor’s Responsible Infrastructure Development
This event log is the detailed companion to the Scorecard. The Scorecard gives the month-end reading. The log shows the individual events behind that reading. The question behind each item is simple: does this event tend to concentrate AI-related power, or does it help disperse capability, accountability, or
Google’s latest AI announcements are easy to read as a convenience story. Search gets smarter. Gemini gets faster. Developers get better tools. Shopping gets easier. Ads become more tailored to AI-powered search. All true. But the deeper signal is about power. At Google I/O 2026, Google announced