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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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April 17, 2026
Scoop: Anthropic to have peace talks at White House
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is scheduled to walk into the West Wing on Friday for a meeting with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles — a breakthrough in his effort to resolve the company's bitter...
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April 13, 2026
No company in American history has ever grown like Anthropic
I have no clue if there's an AI bubble.I do know this: I went hunting for any company — in any industry, in any era — that has scaled organic revenue this quickly at this level as Anthropic.Couldn'...
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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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