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July 16, 2026
Behind the Curtain: AI godfathers converge on regulations
The three men racing hardest to build superhuman AI — Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei — all agree the frontier needs to be regulated ASAP.Why it matters: For the first time, the CEOs of...
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July 9, 2026
Behind the Curtain: These 3 big AI trends are colliding at the same time
Three AI trends are accelerating and colliding, forcing government, business and investors to rethink strategies in real time:AI is getting bigger and better, both here and in China. The U.S. gover...
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July 4, 2026
What America gets right
We're alive at the single greatest moment in U.S. and human history. By a lot.Why it matters: It's not even close, by almost every empirical measure. We live longer, better, richer, healthier and f...
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June 29, 2026
Jonathan Swan's 3 things that every CEO needs to know about Trump
I never read Trump books. To me, there's little mystery to how the president thinks, operates or governs. So reading about it is an inefficient use of time.Until now. Maggie Haberman and Jonathan S...
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June 26, 2026
Behind the Curtain: The cost of blind loyalty
President Trump trained elected Republicans to obey him, even when they disagreed.Elected Republicans trained Trump to expect obedience, even as his demands grew impossible to satisfy.Why it matter...
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June 25, 2026
Behind the Curtain: America's great political implosion
American politics, reordered and reimagined by a decade of President Trump's rise, fall and resurrection, is imploding in substantial ways.MAGA is splintering between Trump enthusiasts and true "Am...
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June 18, 2026
Jim VandeHei: Writing with AI
Few AI use cases elicit more outrage than writing: Using AI makes writing duller ... dumber ... robotic. It kills thinking ... creativity ... originality. It produces sameness and slop!Why it matte...
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June 14, 2026
Scoop: Trump aides fear Haberman and Swan obtained Situation Room tapes for "Regime Change"
Top White House officials believe New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings for their forthcoming book, "Regime Change."Why it ...
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June 9, 2026
Confessions of an AI lab rat
Axios CEO Jim VandeHei writes: I've spent the past year using AI obsessively — inputting copious amounts of personal and business data, turning myself into a lab rat for Axios and our readers.Why i...
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June 2, 2026
Just lead: 6 ways today's CEOs can meet the moment
This is Axios CEO Jim VandeHei's plan to help CEOs and other leaders navigate this moment. This call to action, which got a sneak peek over the weekend in his C-Suite newsletter, is a follow-up to ...
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June 1, 2026
The Rattled Generation: A unified theory of this American moment
After years of talking to hundreds of CEOs, elected officials, social scientists and ordinary Americans, this is our best take on how things stand in our country right now and a guide to how we got...
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May 26, 2026
Behind the Curtain: Trump's irreversible choices
President Trump has proudly stretched the power of the presidency in never-before-witnessed ways.But it's the choices he's made with that power — often alone, often impulsive — that explain his plu...
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May 22, 2026
Trump is cashing in on the presidency like no president ever has
Never in 250 years has America witnessed a sitting president shield himself and his family from tax scrutiny, after leveraging policies that benefit his own businesses and personal portfolios, as D...
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May 17, 2026
Scoop: Trump advisers fear China may target Taiwan in next 5 years
Some close advisers to President Trump fear the biggest substantive result of the China summit is heightened danger that Chinese President Xi Jinping will invade Taiwan in the next five years, pote...
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May 13, 2026
Axios interview: Reimagining government + business + AI
Chris Lehane, OpenAI's chief global affairs officer, fears the rising risk of unpopular AI and told us the solution might be a reorg of government and business. He offered two megapoints in a conve...
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May 12, 2026
America is scaling sin in real time. We're all paying for it.
Las Vegas has long been known as Sin City for its 24/7 access to all kinds of indecencies.America is quickly becoming Sin Nation. Or, as President Trump put it while discussing prediction markets i...
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May 7, 2026
Behind the Curtain: Intelligence explosion
Anthropic, the AI lab whose identity is wrapped around warning the world about AI risk, is claiming "early signs" of AI not just coding its own products but building itself.Why it matters: Anthropi...
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May 6, 2026
Stop overthinking AI. Simplify with 3 questions only you can answer.
The simplest AI playbook we know doesn't involve a single model. It's three questions, asked by YOU to YOU. They work for any size company, any seniority level:What are the three things, in order o...
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May 5, 2026
You built it with AI. Now run it with AI.
I'm offering you four specific ways to get more out of AI: better prompting, improving AI memory, starting a business using AI and running a business using AI (tonight).Congrats! You started a busi...
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May 1, 2026
AI just killed your last excuse for not starting a business
I'm offering you four specific ways to get more out of AI: better prompting, improving AI memory, starting a business using AI (tonight) and running a business using AI (Monday).The barrier to star...
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April 30, 2026
Our time is short. These three didn't waste it on division
Here is the most baffling paradox of 2026: Most Americans agree on most things most of the time — and yet, our feeds and screens scream civil war.Our eyes and our front porches tell a different sto...
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April 29, 2026
Behind the Curtain: We've been warned
Six facts. No hyperbole. All in the past 60 days.AI is the fastest-growing product category in world history.One of the latest models is so powerful that its maker won't release it to the public.Op...
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April 29, 2026
Axios Finish Line: Make AI remember you
I'm offering you four specific ways to get more out of AI this week: better prompting, improving AI memory (tonight), starting a business using AI (tomorrow) and running a business using AI (Thursd...
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April 28, 2026
Axios Finish Line: Prompt like a pro
I'm going to offer four specific ways for you to get more out of AI this week: better prompting (tonight), improving AI memory (Tuesday), starting a business using AI (Wednesday) and running a busi...
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April 23, 2026
Jim VandeHei: A letter to our kids on handling the coming hurricane of change
My note to my kids about AI went viral with many parents. I touched on the note this week while taping an NPR segment — the topic clearly hit a nerve.I asked lots of people why. Put simply, parents...
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April 21, 2026
Young people hate today's job market. You can't blame it all on AI
We wrote last week about the societal, academic and economic implications of young Americans scared of AI ("The kids aren't AI-right, Part 1"). Today, we dig deeper into job panic.Young Americans a...
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April 19, 2026
China is the Iran war's biggest winner. It never fired a shot
Chinese President Xi Jinping has spent the Iran war doing what he does best — patiently exploiting America's distraction and discord.Why it matters: The conflict allowed China to bolster its diplom...
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