Trump’s dangerous and unhinged Truth Social rants remove all doubt about the threat he poses to millions of lives.

There’s one thing that can be said about Truth Social: The Trump-owned social media platform has done more than any other outlet to reveal the moral rot festering at the core of the most powerful man on Earth.

Over the past 48 hours, Trump’s expletive-laced rants have called for the genocidal eradication of Persian civilization and mocked an entire religion, while reveling in the president’s eagerness to commit war crimes on a global scale.

Trump backed up his Truth Social claims during a Monday press conference, where he reiterated his plans to bomb Iran back “to the Stone Age,” if it doesn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz to shipments of his precious petroleum.

The president’s astounding rhetoric echoes that of past fascist leaders — dictators who eventually led their countries to commit genocidal crimes and provoke world wars that cost tens of millions of lives.

As war reshapes the Gulf, the satellite infrastructure the world relies on to see conflict clearly is being delayed, spoofed, and privately controlled—and nobody is sure who is responsible.

Last month, Iran’s Tehran Times posted what appeared to be damning satellite proof: a before-and-after image of “American radar,” supposedly “completely destroyed.”

It wasn’t. The image was an AI-manipulated version of a year-old Google Earth shot from Bahrain—wrong location, wrong timeline, fabricated damage. Open source intelligence researchers debunked it within hours, matching it to older satellite imagery and identifying identical visual artifacts, down to cars frozen in the same positions.

A small act of disinformation, quickly debunked. But it pointed to a challenge that becomes more difficult during active conflict: The satellite infrastructure that journalists, analysts, pilots, and governments rely on to see conflict clearly in the Gulf is itself becoming contested terrain—delayed, spoofed, withheld, or simply controlled by actors whose interests don’t always align with public access.

The escalation follows rising tensions between the US, Israel, and Iran, with missile and drone activity crossing Gulf airspace and regional infrastructure—including satellites and navigation systems—entering into the conflict.

This op-ed argues that a rapid global expansion of hyperscale data centers—driven by AI, cloud computing, and digital demand—is increasingly shifting into rural areas, where land and power are more available.

Rather than treating these facilities as isolated, proprietary campuses, the author proposes a shift toward open-access models that transform rural data centers into shared digital infrastructure platforms—“digital hubs”—capable of supporting broader regional development.

How updating outdated satellite regulations can expand coverage and capacity for better broadband

Connecting everyone on Earth to high-speed internet is one of the greatest opportunities of our time. At Amazon Leo, we're working to help bridge the digital divide by building a constellation of thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit, but delivering on this vision requires more than just innovative technology – it requires modernizing regulations written during the dial-up era.

Rule changes aim to fast-track retirement of copper networks.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to rip-up rules it claims will help operators speed up deployment efforts.

As part of Chairman Brendan Carr’s "delete, delete, delete" effort, the changes are part of a bid to reduce regulatory burdens by giving providers the means to invest more resources toward modernizing their networks.

On the cutting room floor are filing requirements around network change disclosure mandates and applications for when older technology is phased out. While operators would still be required to obtain an authorization were they to phase out copper, the changes mean firms would not need to alert the agency if they were to make other changes to their network.

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI, Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz write.

n the fall of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, sent secret memos to three fellow-members of the organization’s board of directors. For weeks, they’d been having furtive discussions about whether Sam Altman, OpenAI’s C.E.O., and Greg Brockman, his second-in-command, were fit to run the company. Sutskever had once counted both men as friends. In 2019, he’d officiated Brockman’s wedding, in a ceremony at OpenAI’s offices that included a ring bearer in the form of a robotic hand. But as he grew convinced that the company was nearing its long-term goal—creating an artificial intelligence that could rival or surpass the cognitive capabilities of human beings—his doubts about Altman increased. As Sutskever put it to another board member at the time, “I don’t think Sam is the guy who should have his finger on the button.”

At the behest of his fellow board members, Sutskever worked with like-minded colleagues to compile some seventy pages of Slack messages and H.R. documents, accompanied by explanatory text. The material included images taken with a cellphone, apparently to avoid detection on company devices. He sent the final memos to the other board members as disappearing messages, to insure that no one else would ever see them. “He was terrified,” a board member who received them recalled. The memos, which we reviewed, have not previously been disclosed in full. They allege that Altman misrepresented facts to executives and board members, and deceived them about internal safety protocols. One of the memos, about Altman, begins with a list headed “Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of . . .” The first item is “Lying.”

British government proposals for Anthropic range from an office expansion in London to a dual stock listing, the newspaper reported, citing people with knowledge of the plans.

Cory Doctorow says the internet is getting worse and he has a theory why. In conversation with The National’s Ian Hanomansing, the Canadian author explains his term ‘enshittification’ and the questions it raises about the power of big tech.

00:00 The ‘enshittification’ gimmick
01:25 Badly served by big tech
02:41 Isn’t Instagram working for me?
04:37 An opportunity for Canada
06:44 Are you worried about AI?
07:40 It’s not your fault

There's a political fight over the practice of therapy, spurred by AI. As Wall Street driven health platforms try to reorder mental health care, therapists are pushing for regulation of insurance.

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve gotten outreach from a few therapists who told me how corporate middlemen are entering the profession as “platforms.” And part of what they are doing is encouraging the recording of therapy sessions to potentially train artificial intelligence models.

So I looked into it, and sure enough it’s happening. But how it’s happening, and why it’s happening, is only partly a technology story. It is more a story of how Wall Street is attempting to reorganize what has traditionally been an independent therapy profession, albeit one that never offered its services to all those in need. There is also pushback; states are starting to pass some laws that block financialization and widen access.

Let’s start with what’s happening on the AI front, with some attempts to just replace therapists.

Banks and other firms that want to work on SpaceX’s initial public offering (IPO) are being required to buy subscriptions to the Grok AI service, The New York Times reported today.

Elon Musk “is requiring banks, law firms, auditors and other advisers working on the IPO to buy subscriptions to Grok, his artificial intelligence chatbot that is part of SpaceX,” the NYT wrote, citing anonymous sources who are familiar with the confidential negotiations. “Some of the banks have agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot and they have already started integrating Grok into their IT systems.”

SpaceX reportedly filed IPO paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission this week. The IPO filing came two months after SpaceX purchased xAI, the Musk company that produces Grok. xAI purchased the X social network in March 2025.

As Cursor launches the next generation of its product, the AI coding startup has to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic more directly than ever.

Cursor announced Thursday the launch of Cursor 3, a new product interface that allows users to spin up AI coding agents to complete tasks on their behalf. The product, which was developed under the code name Glass, is Cursor’s response to agentic coding tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, which have taken off with millions of developers in recent months.

“In the last few months, our profession has completely changed,” said Jonas Nelle, one of Cursor’s heads of engineering, in an interview with WIRED. “A lot of the product that got Cursor here is not as important going forward anymore.”

AI is straining the networks meant to support it. Here's why opening the 6 GHz band is the fix — and why the window to act is closing.

You may have heard about 25 Gbit symmetrical internet in Switzerland. This is often cited as the fastest dedicated (non-shared) residential connection in the world. However, did you ever wonder why Switzerland has such fast internet at a reasonable price while the United States and other countries like Switzerland’s neighbor Germany are falling behind?

What is the fundamental difference between the countries that leads to such a stark difference in internet speeds and prices?

Free markets, regulation, technology, or all three?

Let’s take a closer look at the situation in Switzerland, Germany, and the United States.

A bill in Colorado is a glimpse into the future of how corporations are working to limit the freedom people have to make their own fixes and upgrades.

Three hyperscalers, three states, 3.4 GW of data centers developed, and a 45 GW pipeline. From flared gas and Bitcoin mining to a $10B+ vertically integrated energy-and-compute company in three years. A breakdown of what Crusoe is actually building — and why the category labels the market uses for it are wrong.

In January 2026, the Laramie County Board of Commissioners in Wyoming unanimously approved Project Jade — a $50 billion data center and power generation complex that will, at its initial phase, consume 2.7 gigawatts of electricity. That’s nearly three times the current power demand of the entire state of Wyoming. Plans filed with the county contemplate scaling the facility to 10 GW.

The developer is Crusoe. The power partner is Tallgrass Energy, which will build a co-located natural gas and Bloom Energy fuel cell facility specifically to supply the data center. Crusoe’s own investment: over $40 billion. Tallgrass investment: $7 billion. Target for first buildings operational: 2027.

Lots of monopoly news, as usual. The pro-monopoly Attorney General Pam Bondi was fired, Sysco is buying Restaurant Depot in a crisis for restaurants, and rents are dropping in Arizona after RealPage’s algorithmic cartel arrangement was busted up.

There’s a lot more in the news round-up, but I want to focus on an announcement this week from former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan. She is co-founding a new academic institute, the Center for Law and Economy, at Columbia University.

The center will focus on the way “law and legal institutions structure the economy.” As such, it’s a useful moment to spend a bit of time looking at the long-term institution building of the anti-monopoly movement, and how it is addressing the democracy crisis in America.

Khan, of course, isn’t alone, she’s leading a movement. For instance, the Fordham Law Review just did an entire issue on Antitrust Law and Oligarchy, with articles by a host of former Biden officials. What these twin intellectual events show is that the movement to tame anti-democratic forces in America is growing, under the radar, in powerful ways.

Let’s get into it.

Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy was one of the few skeptics at the Runway AI Summit, where AI was compared to fire and the printing press just a week after Sora’s death.

Kathleen Kennedy, the Hollywood super-producer behind culture-defining megahits like Jurassic Park and the Star Wars franchise, recently put a question to the head of the American Film Institute: “How are you going to teach taste?”

As Kennedy told an audience of industry insiders who gathered in Manhattan this week for the Runway AI Summit, the venerable LA film academy has been incorporating certain artificial intelligence tools into their curriculum. Kennedy says she asked the institute’s dean how the school would continue to raise generations of not just prompt-generators but discerning filmmakers with a distinct point of view. “Taste is fundamental,” Kennedy, 72, told the crowd. “It does define the choices you’re making.”

In other words, how could the AFI ensure that these AI tools were being used to make work that is, you know, good?

A Rome court has found Netflix's subscription price increases between 2017 and 2024 to be unlawful, potentially entitling millions of Italian subscribers to refunds of up to €500. The streaming giant says it will appeal.