When Safety Is the Product: How AI Labs Are Redefining What "Safe" Means
OpenAI disbanded its Mission Alignment team in February, then released open-weight safety reasoning models a month later. Bloomberg argues safety team headcounts don't match stated commitments. Meanwhile Anthropic is automating its own alignment auditing. The story is about whether AI safety is being genuinely scaled, or quietly redefined into something narrower and more marketable.
Read full story →Enterprise AI Is in Its Awkward Phase
OpenAI's own COO admitted earlier this year that AI hasn't yet penetrated enterprise business processes. The picture across Q1 2026 is of companies spending heavily on AI, piloting broadly, and transforming far less than expected. What's blocking the gap from pilot to process change, and what the companies that are succeeding have in common.
Read full story →Most Americans Now Say AI Will Harm Them. The Data Is Messier Than That.
A Quinnipiac poll found 55 percent of Americans believe AI will do more harm than good in their lives, up 11 points in a year. But Bloomberg notes that evidence of AI actually causing the job losses driving that fear remains "patchy at best." Meanwhile skilled tradespeople, once assumed most vulnerable, are seeing the strongest wage growth. Public anxiety is real; the mechanism is harder to trace than it looks.
Read full story →The AI Drug Pipeline Is Filling Up. Will Anything Make It to Patients?
Insilico Medicine and Eli Lilly announced a $2.75 billion AI-driven drug development deal last week, the latest in a run of major pharma partnerships with AI-native companies. Isomorphic Labs, Chai Discovery, Proxima — the sector is accumulating commitments at a striking pace. The infrastructure has been built and the money has arrived. The clinical record is thinner than the press releases suggest.
Read full story →Who Pays for AI's Power Habit? Congress Is Starting to Ask.
The Senate moved last week to compel data centres to disclose electricity consumption, bringing into the open a cost fight that has been building for months. Data centre electricity demand is projected to nearly triple by 2035. In PJM Interconnection's latest grid auction, costs attributable to data centres accounted for 49% of the total. The question of who absorbs the infrastructure bill — ratepayers or tech companies — is becoming politically unavoidable.
Read full story →The 55 Percent Are Right. Here Is What They Are Missing.
The Quinnipiac poll captures real fear, but fear framed as "my job might go." The harder, less legible version is that the system connecting human effort to livelihood to economic participation is being systematically dismantled. Job loss is the first-order effect. The collapse of the economic loop is the one that matters, and no one in power has a plan for it.
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