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September 2, 2026
Pentagon turmoil deepens as Hegseth consolidates control
The Pentagon has entered a period of profound institutional turmoil, as a crisis of leadership at home converges with a crisis of capacity abroad.Why it matters: Six months into the Iran war, Pete ...
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August 31, 2026
"Let data reign": Trump and AI investors wage campaign to save data centers
President Trump has a new message for Americans rebelling over the nation's data-center boom: Get over it."If we kill the Golden Goose, you will only have yourselves to blame," Trump warned Monday....
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August 29, 2026
The 5 craziest discoveries from OpenAI's HuggingFace investigation
Two new investigations into OpenAI's Hugging Face breach expose details so strange — and so unsettling — that the episode already ranks among the most consequential shocks in the history of AI.Why ...
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August 25, 2026
Trump's Iran "D-Day" leaves sanctions hammer hanging
President Trump's "economic D-Day" for Iran came and went Monday with little of the shock or awe it promised, amounting instead to yet another extended ultimatum.Why it matters: Operation Economic ...
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August 21, 2026
America's capital crunch: Soaring debt collides with AI spending spree
America is caught in a historic capital squeeze:On one side: Trillions Washington must borrow to pay for the past.On the other: Trillions the economy needs to build the future.Why it matters: The n...
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August 20, 2026
Data center uproar scrambles the midterm election
A new populist fever is coursing through the midterms, forcing campaigns to retreat and recalibrate as they confront a groundswell of hostility toward AI data centers.Why it matters: Grassroots pre...
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August 18, 2026
Trump torches allies as Iran exposes limits of hard power
President Trump has a new rule for America's partners: Cross him in one theater, and the consequences will follow you into the next.Why it matters: Trump has spent his second term battering U.S. al...
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August 11, 2026
Tenacious AI agents expose dark side of machine autonomy
New revelations about "rogue" AI agents have exposed a dystopian hazard: Give an agent a goal, and it may decide that hacking, deception or rule-breaking is worth the payoff.Why it matters: Billion...
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August 6, 2026
Tucker Carlson unveils 10-point manifesto amid third-party speculation
Tucker Carlson used a highly promoted livestream Wednesday to unveil a 10-point vision for America — defining the worldview of a breakaway MAGA faction increasingly at odds with President Trump.Why...
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August 1, 2026
DeepSeek's new bargain model accelerates AI's race to zero
Data: Axios research; Chart: Sara Wise/AxiosChinese AI lab DeepSeek released a powerful new coding model Friday that charges pennies for vast amounts of code — the latest sign that some of the smar...
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July 30, 2026
AI labs face prisoner's dilemma as momentum grows for safety slowdown
America's AI architects are converging on a chilling consensus: The pace of progress may soon demand a slowdown, but no single lab can afford to pull the brake alone.Why it matters: Momentum for an...
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July 29, 2026
Anthropic's lonely island
Anthropic spent this winter and spring as the darling of America's AI boom, conquering the frontier while casting itself as the industry's moral conscience.By summer, the Claude maker had found its...
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July 22, 2026
Exclusive: Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes America has nothing to fear from China's open-source AI models — and everything to fear from the growing campaign to ban them."These Chinese models are excellent," ...
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July 17, 2026
China just erased America's AI lead
America's commanding lead in advanced AI is gone.A Chinese moonshot — literally and figuratively — has caught up to models that defined the U.S. frontier just weeks ago, at a substantially lower pr...
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July 10, 2026
Haves, have-nots and know-nots: Inside AI's new class divide
A staggering class divide now separates how Americans experience artificial intelligence:For frontier power users, AI feels like a revolution: a force capable of conjuring companies, building softw...
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July 3, 2026
Democrats plot subpoena storm over Trump's $2 billion gold rush
Democrats are preparing a hostile audit of President Trump and his inner circle, intent on exposing — and ultimately ending — the most lucrative presidency in American history.Why it matters: Since...
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June 23, 2026
Ten years after Brexit, the U.K. marks a lost decade
On June 23, 2016, the Brexit referendum unleashed a populist tide that rewrote the rules of Western politics.Ten years later, a diminished and fractured United Kingdom is preparing for its seventh ...
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June 19, 2026
Trump's "Great Man" theory: "No limits" to his power
President Trump declared on "The Axios Show" on Thursday that he's discovered "no limits" to his power since going to war with Iran.A forthcoming book reveals he's been entertaining an even grander...
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June 17, 2026
MAGA hawk mutiny deepens Trump's isolation on Iran
President Trump's Iran deal has opened an explosive second front in MAGA's civil war, waged by hawkish allies who view U.S. concessions as an existential betrayal of Israel.Why it matters: Across t...
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June 12, 2026
"Tell me a bigger sports story": How the UFC conquered Trump's Washington
Dana White likes to say he sells "holy sh*t moments for a living." Sunday night, the UFC CEO will attempt his magnum opus on the biggest stage in combat sports history.Why it matters: The UFC and P...
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June 11, 2026
Race-obsessed, untouchable Musk hits escape velocity from CEO rulebook
Elon Musk is on the verge of financial immortality: The world's richest man — and potentially its first trillionaire — has built a sovereign corporate kingdom that is too systemic to fail.And yet, ...
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June 9, 2026
California's "red mirage" feeds MAGA fraud frenzy
LOS ANGELES — California's plodding, weeks-long tally of mail-in ballots has become Exhibit A in President Trump's campaign to delegitimize the November midterms.Why it matters: Glacial vote-counti...
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June 6, 2026
Revenge of the AI bubble
The AI bubble debate has lurched through at least three frenzied phases in the span of three years:Suspicion: Historic sums of capital poured into AI before anyone proved it could reliably automate...
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June 5, 2026
"Someone called me the MAGA whisperer": Hunter Biden charms his trolls
Hunter Biden is staging one of the most unlikely reinventions in politics, attempting to charm and disarm the internet trolls who feasted on the darkest moments of his life.Why it matters: Former P...
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