OpenAI and Anthropic have legitimate complaints about Chinese distillation. But restricting open models could protect their tollbooths, isolate American developers and spring the indispensability trap that was inevitable from the moment AI became essential infrastructure.
Google’s AI is consuming the open web while cutting off the traffic that sustains it. Now publishers, agencies, vendors—and even readers—must renegotiate relationships built for an internet that no longer exists.
Falling prices are destroying the scarcity of artificial intelligence while open-weight models are loosening the grip of proprietary providers. Together, those forces may determine where the lasting value in AI resides.
Courts are sanctioning attorneys for AI-generated mistakes while judges experiment with the same technology. But the larger disruption begins when people stop asking AI to assist their lawyers and start asking whether they need lawyers at all.
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OpenAI’s screenless AI companion threatens more than the HomePod or Siri. It could push Apple beneath the customer relationship, leaving it as the indispensable hardware supporting someone else’s intelligence.
Predictions that AI would trigger massive job losses have not materialized among small businesses. The evidence instead shows owners using affordable tools to eliminate administrative work, expand capacity and help employees concentrate on what humans do best.
New York’s data-center moratorium is the latest and most visible sign of a national backlash against the infrastructure powering AI. America wants to win the intelligence race, but it has yet to decide who pays for the power, water and communities required to run it.
