Opinion interview reflecting on America’s 250th anniversary from an outsider’s perspective.
Year: 2026
U.S. policy used to jam GPS. Now those signals beam into your pocket
Column on how GPS technology policy evolved from military restriction to everyday consumer use.
Minnesota takes a step toward breaking its nuclear ban
Opinion piece on Minnesota’s legislative movement to lift its decades-old moratorium on nuclear power plants.
If food trucks are outlawed, only outlaws will run food trucks
Opinion column arguing over-regulation of food trucks pushes vendors into informal, unlicensed operation.
Alexi Lalas drives U.S. soccer fans crazy
Washington Post opinion piece on the polarizing pundit’s World Cup commentary style.
Microsoft MAI-Thinking-1 Model Aims to Match Premium Reasoning Quality at Highly Competitive Token Cost
Microsoft’s new in-house reasoning model announced as part of the MAI model suite targets enterprise customers who need strong logical capabilities without frontier model pricing.
SpaceX and Anthropic IPOs Mark AI’s Transition From Venture Capital Experiment to Public Market Asset
The emerging wave of AI company public listings starting with SpaceX is bringing new accountability transparency demands and quarterly earnings pressure to frontier AI labs.
Alibaba’s 25,000 Fake Anthropic Accounts Extracted AI Capabilities Over 6 Weeks — US Senate Now Briefed
Anthropic’s formal accusation letter sent to Senate Banking Committee leaders provides detailed technical evidence of the unprecedented corporate AI espionage campaign.
Pentagon Testing OpenAI and Google Models as Potential Replacements for Anthropic Claude in Classified Systems
The US Defense Department has confirmed it is evaluating alternatives to Claude for classified use cases as AI companies compete intensely for government security contracts.
Agentjacking Attack Class Exploits AI Coding Agent Trust — Security Researchers Issue Enterprise Warning
A newly identified attack category that injects malicious instructions into AI agents via compromised tool output is creating a significant security surface for organisations.