The $500 Billion AI Bet Just Became a War Target
Iran's Revolutionary Guard released a video this week targeting the Stargate data centre in the UAE, the centrepiece of OpenAI and SoftBank's $500 billion Middle East AI buildout. With AWS and Oracle facilities already struck by Iranian drones and missiles, the region's AI infrastructure boom is running headlong into an active military conflict.
Read full story →OpenAI Has a Plan for the Economy It Is Disrupting
OpenAI published a policy paper proposing robot taxes, a public wealth fund, and a government-subsidised four-day work week — filed from a company that just raised $122 billion. The proposals acknowledge that AI-driven displacement is real, while leaving the market structure that makes it inevitable entirely intact.
Read full story →OpenAI's Paper Gets the Problem Right and the Solutions Wrong
OpenAI and the post-labour economists agree: when wage labour collapses, people need to own a stake in the machines. As an end state that may be right. As a path from here, it assumes a transition that nobody has described, and ignores what mass unemployment does to people beyond the loss of a pay cheque.
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