AI off-balance-sheet obligations, particularly take-or-pay contracts for frontier labs, are set to hit a reset wall in 2027 and 2028, according to Groundbreaker. The article warns that massive AI spen…
Financial Stability Board chair Andrew Bailey warned G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in a letter that AI-enabled cyber attacks pose a major threat to the global financial system, urgi…
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted preliminary conditional approval on August 14 for a national trust bank charter to the Trump family's crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, mar…
Daniel Kwasi Kpeglo, a PhD graduate in physics from the University of South Africa, has developed a nanomaterial floating cover that reduces water evaporation from dams and reservoirs by allowing more…
Police have wrongfully arrested individuals based on faulty AI-assisted Flock surveillance footage, as documented by Reason Magazine, with one woman spending seven months in legal battles after being …
Meta Platforms faces a federal trial in Oakland before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers over claims it addicted young users to Instagram and Facebook, with 29 state attorneys general seeking up to $1.4 tr…
Microsoft Corp. spent $283 billion on stock buybacks and $223 billion on dividends from 2006 to 2025, totaling 71% of profits, while laying off thousands of workers, according to an analysis by the In…
Rob Urie argues in a CounterPunch article that US environmental policy has failed because it serves the interests of capital, and that AI's enormous energy use will worsen climate change while its mor…
A study by Mark Ma, Professor of Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh, found that AI-driven layoffs are hurting worker productivity because job insecurity makes employees reluctant …
A new analysis by Thomas Ferguson, Servaas Storm, and Jie Chen at the Institute for New Economic Thinking finds that U.S. workers' share of national income hit one of its lowest levels on record, with…
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a report and memo Tuesday directing billions in federal research funds toward AI and away from universities, aiming to prioritize indiv…
The narrative of an AI race between the United States and China is a myth perpetuated by Big Tech to justify the construction of water-guzzling, energy-hungry data centers, argues Mitch Jones, managin…
Richard Murphy warns that stock prices could fall by 50%, citing extreme overvaluation of AI shares and a Bank of International Settlements warning that an AI crash could produce an investment drought…
Peace activist and US Army Ranger veteran Gregory Stoker warns that defense contractors use Gaza and the West Bank as a testing ground for cyber-dystopian tech, including advanced spyware, AI drones, …
Rob Urie argues that US political leaders, including Donald Trump and Congress, are openly accepting projections of 50%–60% AI-driven unemployment without concern for the resulting social upheaval, wh…
Former banker Satyajit Das warns that current stock market overvaluation, driven by AI and space ventures like SpaceX, mirrors the dot.com bubble, which caused $5-6 trillion in losses and an 80% Nasda…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has proposed giving the US government a 5% ownership stake in the $852 billion AI startup to secure political support, according to the Financial Times. The plan, which would als…
A Sunday Morning Movie newsletter features the 1974 Hungarian war film 'Hószakadás' (Snowfall) and includes a TED talk by neuroscientist Anil Seth arguing that AI is not conscious, warning against pro…
Cloudflare is threatening to block Google's multi-purpose crawlers from accessing ad-supported webpages starting September 15, 2026, unless Google provides a technical solution that allows publishers …
Dr. Scott Atlas of Stanford's Hoover Institution proposes abolishing the National Institutes of Health, arguing that private sector funding and venture capital can replace it. Critics, including Dr. D…