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Power & control.

The institutions, infrastructure and choices shaping technological power.

Claude opens the lab door. Who holds the key?

Anthropic is giving vetted life-science teams broader AI access. The trade moves part of the safety burden from blocked requests to institutional oversight.

AI 30 Sep 2026 3 min read

DeepMind wants to shape the world after AGI

The DeepMind Institute puts work, ownership and public agency on its agenda. Its economic scenarios are proposals—not forecasts—and its policy-rating panel is simulated.

AI 16 Sep 2026 3 min read

Trump Wants to Win AI. Who Gets to Set the Speed?

Trump rejects the AI slowdown as China challenges its terms. Behind the clash lies a harder question: who controls a race that may begin accelerating itself?

AI 14 Sep 2026 8 min read

AI Is Helping Build Its Successors. Who Controls the Loop?

AI is helping build the next AI. Inside the evidence for recursive self-improvement—and the fight over who gets to steer what happens next.

AI 13 Sep 2026 9 min read

“Gambling With Our Lives”: Anthropic’s Safety Promise Under Fire

Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic over the AI race. A colleague echoed his warning; Dario Amodei now proposes slower progress and independent scrutiny.

AI 13 Sep 2026 6 min read

AI Wants the Grid. Who Pays When the Boom Walks Away?

Ohio wants data centers to carry their own grid burden. The emerging rules expose the AI boom’s uncomfortable question: who pays when promised demand becomes public infrastructure?

Energy 7 Sep 2026 Follow-up 3 min read

China’s Robotics Strategy Is About Industrial Power, Not Humanoid Hype

China’s robotics push is easier to understand as industrial strategy: embodied AI, supplier depth, factory deployment and state-directed modernization moving into one frame.

Robotics 27 May 2026 5 min read

Data Center Electricity Demand Is Becoming Official Grid Accounting

EIA’s AEO2026 does not prove an AI power crisis. It does something more useful: it makes data-center server energy use visible as a modeled planning object.

Energy 26 May 2026 4 min read

AI Data Center Power Demand Is Turning Utilities Into Compute Infrastructure

AI’s electricity problem has moved beyond power contracts. The next phase is about who controls the grid territory and utility assets that compute depends on.

Energy 19 May 2026 7 min read

Orbital Data Centers: When AI Compute Tries to Leave Earth

AI companies are exploring data centers in orbit. The real story is not science fiction, but what the idea reveals about power, land, cooling, and compute on Earth.

Compute 18 May 2026 8 min read

AI’s Grid Bottleneck Is Transformers

The AI buildout may be limited by the parts of the grid nobody can manufacture fast enough.

Energy 13 May 2026 7 min read

Terafab and the AI Chip Empire: Why Musk Wants to Build the Whole Stack

Terafab is what happens when AI stops looking like software and starts looking like heavy industry.

Compute 11 May 2026 6 min read

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