Anthropic
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The New Alexandrian Book Burning – How AI Labs Are Pulping the Human Record
The systematic destruction of physical books for artificial intelligence training represents an unprecedented assault on humanity’s cultural inheritance, sanctioned by courts and executed at industrial scale The development of artificial intelligence has required vast quantities of human-produced text, and the methods by which technology companies have acquired this material have attracted increasing scrutiny as the… Continue reading
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Cloud Capital, Autonomous Weapons and the Fracturing of Dollar Hegemony
How platform rents, battlefield data extraction and payment-system alternatives are reshaping the political economy of conflict in the mid-2020s The concentration of computational power within a handful of privately owned platforms has begun to reshape both commercial exchange and the conduct of organised violence. Algorithms that once merely recommended consumer goods now perform target selection,… Continue reading
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Big Tech Is Borrowing Hundreds of Billions to Bet on AI – And the Bet Isn’t Paying Off (Yet)
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta and Oracle are borrowing at an unprecedented rate to fund AI infrastructure, even as memory prices climb and the revenue to justify the spending remains unproven Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Oracle built their market value over two decades on a specific financial identity, cash-generative software businesses that required comparatively little… Continue reading
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The Price Shock – How Chinese Open-Weight AI Is Dismantling Silicon Valley’s Business Model
How DeepSeek and Zhipu AI exposed the assumptions on which $1.8 trillion in Western AI valuations rest Editorial Analysis | July 2026 I. The Regulatory Hearing as Commercial Theatre Sam Altman appeared before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law on 16 May 2023, delivering testimony that a senior Democratic senator described… Continue reading
