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April 8, 2026
Anthropic's newest AI model could wreak havoc. Most in power aren't ready
Anthropic has begun a tightly controlled release of Mythos, the first AI model that officials believe is capable of bringing down a Fortune 100 company, crippling swaths of the internet or penetrat...
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April 2, 2026
Jamie Dimon's warning: More geopolitical risk for America than since WWII
JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon tells me the U.S. is facing the most concurrent risks in 80 years — and that's before AI starts displacing a large number of American workers.Why it matt...
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March 30, 2026
Dems' hit list: Subpoena plans if they win House
If Dems win the House in midterms (likely), expect them to target moguls and major corporations for subpoenas, Axios CEO Jim VandeHei writes in his new newsletter for CEOs.The target list includes ...
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March 29, 2026
Everyone's worried that AI's newest models are a hacker's dream weapon
Top AI and government officials tell Axios CEO Jim VandeHei that Anthropic, OpenAI and other tech giants will soon release new models that are scary-good at hacking sophisticated systems at scale.T...
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March 24, 2026
Behind the Curtain: America's next class war will be over AI fluency
Anthropic just dropped the most granular data yet on who's actually using AI and how — and the findings should rattle anyone thinking AI's gains will be evenly distributed.It won't. In fact, it's c...
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March 16, 2026
Behind the Curtain: Trump's escalation trap
For five years in office, President Trump has operated with intuition, impulse and improvisation.The Iran war, now entering Week 3, is the first time Trump's style has made it impossible for him to...
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March 12, 2026
Axios Finish Line: A consensus Bill of Rights
Watch the White House, Congress and most political campaigns, and it seems clear we're too polarized and too tribal to find common cause.Well, that's a lie.Why it matters: In an earlier column, we ...
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March 11, 2026
Behind the Curtain: The big lie warping America
Watch TV, scroll social media or listen to politicians, and the verdict seems clear: Americans are hopelessly divided and increasingly hateful.It's a ubiquitous, emphatic, verifiable ... lie.Why it...
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March 6, 2026
Behind the Curtain: Trump's power play
President Trump seethed when the Supreme Court stripped away his unilateral tariff authority, the first real check on his presidency.Then he set out to impose his will on every remaining vector of ...
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February 24, 2026
Behind the Curtain: AI's biggest threats
If AI were a politician, it'd be headed for a landslide defeat.Defeated by Democrats ... Republicans ... and independents.Why it matters: In the Trump administration, Silicon Valley, and select AI-...
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February 13, 2026
Behind the Curtain: Resistance rising
Little by little, week after week, a subtle but significant shift is unfolding in American politics: Institutions and even a small but growing number of Republicans are standing up to President Tru...
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February 13, 2026
Axios Finish Line: Embrace your insecurity
Axios CEO Jim VandeHei is here with advice on how to use your insecurities to motivate you.
For a video version of this column (and to see what Jim looked like as a 20-year-old punk), click here.
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February 3, 2026
Behind the Curtain: 3 historic shifts simultaneously rattling society
You can only fully understand politics, business and your own anxiety in 2026 by reckoning with the three, once-in-a-generation shifts unfolding at once:The ideologies, tactics and tone of governan...
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January 30, 2026
What skeptics should know about using AI
Axios CEO Jim VandeHei and Axios chief technology officer Dan Cox were chatting about how to share the basics of AI, and this prompting primer was born: The No. 1 pushback we get from AI skeptics o...
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January 26, 2026
Anthropic CEO's grave warning: AI will "test us as a species"
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, the architect of the most powerful and popular AI system for global business, is warning of the imminent "real danger" that super-human intelligence will cause civilizat...
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January 23, 2026
Blunt AI talk
Axios CEO Jim VandeHei wrote this note to his wife, Autumn, and their three kids. She suggested sharing it more broadly since so many families are wrestling with how to think and talk about AI. So ...
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January 21, 2026
The week the world cracked open at Davos
DAVOS, Switzerland — In a 24-hour span in the Swiss Alps, we're witnessing what future historians might mark as a hinge moment: The people building civilization-altering AI, a prime minister declar...
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January 19, 2026
Behind the Curtain: Elon Musk is betting on space as future of AI
Elon Musk and his SpaceX team believe they've cracked the code on building orbiting data centers to power the future of AI — and plan to use the company's upcoming public offering to help fund the ...
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January 17, 2026
Behind the Curtain: The AI future has arrived
OpenAI's ChatGPT previewed the future with its chatbot release in late 2022. Anthropic's latest Claude AI takes you there.Why it matters: Claude Opus 4.5 — which powers Anthropic's agent tools, Cla...
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January 15, 2026
Behind the Curtain: The job replacement AI machine
There's little evidence AI is destroying large numbers of white-collar jobs today. But five developments show the potential for massive future job and workplace disruption.A new report from Goldman...
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January 13, 2026
Behind the Curtain: 20 years of media revolution
Axios CEO Jim VandeHei and co-founder Mike Allen write this column on their 20 years as entrepreneurs together:Twenty years ago this year, Jim quit The Washington Post and Mike bolted TIME magazine...
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January 12, 2026
Behind the Curtain: AI rush creates rarified class of "Have-Lots"
The nation is splitting into three distinct economic realities: the Have-Nots (stalling) ... the Haves (coasting) ... and the Have-Lots (rocketing to greater wealth).Why it matters: This isn't just...
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January 10, 2026
Axios Finish Line: U.S. not them
Axios' Jim VandeHei & Mike Allen write: We're taking a break from the chaos of news and life in January of 2026, and stepping back — way back — to think about where America stands on the 250th ...
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