Zachary Basu

The AI safety debate exploded this week over warnings that the technology could one day destroy humanity.Anthropic's latest threat report offers a more immediate wake-up call: Today's models are al...

An online panic erupted this week after millions discovered that leading AI researchers routinely debate and calculate the risk of human extinction.Taken at face value, the odds are chilling: 10%, ...

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 ...

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....

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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," ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...