AI Just Crossed the Screen
We spent years asking what artificial intelligence could tell us. We may be entering the era where the more important question is what it can actually do.
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EDITORIAL — Beijing Found America's Data Center Fracture. Fix the Grievances. Keep Building. And Know What the Fear Is Worth.
Nicholas Thomas on the most documented foreign influence campaign of the year — Chinese state media, Russian networks, Iranian outlets, a 200,000-account bot farm and a ChatGPT operation called "Data Center Bandwagon" — and on the fact that it barely needed to work, because Americans have real grievances of their own. Then the third option between "build anything" and "build nothing." Then the numbers from the counties that said yes. Then the eight claims doing the damage, graded.
Read articleEDITORIAL — Don't Buy the Cab. Own the Curb. The City-Owned Robotaxi Is a Better Idea Than It Sounds and a Worse Deal Than Its Fans Think — Here's the Math.
Nicholas Thomas on the pitch every city council is going to hear by Christmas: buy Cybercabs at $30,000 apiece, run them as a public utility, and let the fares pay for the buses. It pencils. It also has three holes a city budget can fall through — one federal, one contractual, one historical — and the fix is a model cities already know how to run.
Read articleThe Quiet Flip
The biggest shift in AI isn't a smarter model. It's ten thousand companies discovering they're not even allowed to use the rented kind — and what that discovery does to the next trillion dollars.
Read articleThe Revenge of Dumb Money
Retail investors changed the market. TrendyVest investigates how access, mobile
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