Policy & Impact

Amazon Prime Refunds Rise to $200: Who Qualifies and When

Millions of Amazon Prime customers are newly eligible for automatic settlement refunds, and the maximum total payment has increased from…

3 weeks ago

Trump announces an AI Force. Its powers remain undefined

Donald Trump said on September 19 that he is forming an “AI Force” and will name an “AI czar.” His…

3 weeks ago

Social Security COLA 2027 forecast: September’s gas spike tilts it toward 3.6%

The 2027 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment is two-thirds decided, and the last third is being set at the gas pump.…

4 weeks ago

Trump calls AI risk a ‘hoax.’ Microsoft, Google and Anthropic are writing their own rules

Donald Trump spent Monday telling the AI industry that the danger it is warning about is a hoax, and the…

4 weeks ago

CLARITY Act gets Trump’s ethics deal and a Tuesday vote. Bernstein: a pass isn’t priced in

The crypto market-structure bill that stalled in March is one procedural vote from the Senate floor. Late on Sunday, Senators…

4 weeks ago

AI slowdown has no enforcer: Trump, China’s Global Times and Michael Burry all said no

Dario Amodei's plan to slow the AI race is two days old, and every part of it that needed someone…

4 weeks ago

Tesla certified the Cybercab itself. Now NHTSA is auditing that call

Tesla began charging passengers for driverless Cybercab rides in Austin, and within about a day the federal regulator opened a…

4 weeks ago

The Meta trial’s real risk isn’t the $1.4 trillion. It’s the judge

Article BriefKey Takeaways4 Points24s Read01The Jury Is Advisory-Eight jurors were seated, but their verdict only advises. US District Judge Yvonne…

2 months ago

Nvidia’s H200s are flowing to China again, at 13% of the legal limit

Article BriefKey Takeaways4 Points24s Read01The Number-ByteDance and Tencent have each received about 10,000 Nvidia H200 accelerators. US licence terms permit…

2 months ago

Anthropic’s Model 2 Is Stronger. That Isn’t Why the Risk Label Changed

Anthropic’s August 2026 Risk Report moves its qualitative assessment of catastrophic harm from misalignment in high-stakes settings from “very low”…

2 months ago