The Race to Build AI Data Centers — Before the People Can Protest
Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary has been making the media rounds defending the 40,000-acre data center project he’s backing in northern...
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Who’s Spending in Your Congressional Election? We Tracked the Front Groups Fueling the 2026 Midterms.
The bitter Michigan Senate primary was heating up earlier this month when a mystery group bought $5 million in TV...
This California Congressional Hopeful Opposes a Billionaire Tax. So Do His Tech CEO Backers.
The leading progressive candidate to replace longtime Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi in Congress is opposing a pair of wealth taxes...
Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., speaks at a rally in support of the Kids Online Safety Act on Dec. 10, 2024,...
Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers
Google fulfilled an Immigration and Customs Enforcement subpoena that demanded a wide array of personal data on a student activist...
Musk calls Spanish PM a ‘tyrant’ after Spain announces sweeping social media crackdown
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced sweeping plans at the World Government Summit in Dubai to hold social media executives...
Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About Putting Data Centers in Space?
Data centers present sprawling engineering and political problems, with ravenous appetites for land and resources. Building them on Earth has...
A Journalist Reported From Palestine. YouTube Deleted His Account Claiming He’s an Iranian Agent
In February 2024, without warning, YouTube deleted the account of independent British journalist Robert Inlakesh.His YouTube page featured dozens of...
Robert Reich Thinks Democrats Are On the Brink of a New Era
The Labor Department reported September jobs numbers on Thursday, showing employers added 119,000 jobs to the economy but also an...
As Israel Bombed Gaza, Amazon Did Business With Its Bomb-Makers
Amazon sold cloud-computing services to two Israeli weapons manufacturers whose munitions helped devastate Gaza, according to internal company materials obtained...
Videos of Charlie Kirk’s Murder Are Still on Social Media — and That’s No Accident
Charlie Kirk hands out hats before he was shot and killed during an event at Utah Valley University in Orem,...
Beyond Dobbs: How Abortion Bans Enforce State-Sanctioned Violence
Since the Supreme Court’s landmark June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade and...
Grok Is the Latest in a Long Line of Chatbots To Go Full Nazi
Grok, the Artificial intelligence chatbot from Elon Musk’s xAI, recently gave itself a new name: MechaHitler. This came amid a...
German ambassador warns Trump will ‘undermine’ democratic principles with ‘maximum disruption’ agenda: report
Germany’s ambassador to the U.S. has warned that President-elect Trump’s administration will "undermine" democratic principles with a "maximum disruption" agenda,...
NFL on Netflix, and Big Tech’s TV Up-Fronts Takeover
Universal Media analyst Rich Greenfield stops by to talk about Amazon’s splashy announcements, YouTube viewership, and more Matt is joined...
