Meta’s new Muse Image AI lets people turn other people's public Instagram photos into new synthetic images of them. What could possibly go wrong? Meta’s new Muse Image is being presented as a creative tool for Meta AI, Instagram, WhatsApp, and eventually advertisers. But the more

What Is the EU AI Act? The EU AI Act is the world’s first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence. Formally, it is Regulation (EU) 2024/1689. Substantively, it is Europe’s attempt to turn “trustworthy AI” from a policy aspiration into enforceable rules. The Act is risk-based.

The Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Chatrie is one of the most important Fourth Amendment cases of the digital era. Although the case arose from the government’s use of a geofence warrant to identify a bank robbery suspect, the Court’s opinion is about something much

The House just passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act by a 267–117 vote. It now goes to the Senate, where its path is uncertain. (clerk.house.gov) The bill pulls together several kids’ online safety proposals, including updates to children’s privacy rules, restrictions around targeted advertising

When the Divine Bleeds In John Huston’s 1975 movie The Man Who Would Be King, Sean Connery and Michael Caine play two British rogue ex-soldiers who enter a remote kingdom, exploit a myth, and briefly turn performance into the power to raid the treasure room. Connery’s Daniel

Pax Romana was an era of peace. It meant Roman roads, Roman law, Roman legions, Roman taxation, Roman citizenship, Roman hierarchy, Roman commerce, and Roman punishment. It was imperial order made visible in stone, soldiers, aqueducts, ports, forums, and roads. After World War II, Pax Americana was an era American

Part I of this series described the various players in the AI infrastructure boom. Part II looked at why data centers became so attractive to the real estate and construction economy. Put the AI story aside for a moment, and the argument was simple: the building economy needed a new

The first article in this series looked at the players behind the AI infrastructure boom. This one looks at the simpler, less technical question underneath the buildout: why did data centers become so attractive so quickly? Put the AI story aside for a moment. Forget model benchmarks, frontier labs, Nvidia

The public story of AI data centers usually begins with the technology companies. The AI labs need more compute. The cloud platforms need more capacity. The chipmakers sell the GPUs. The models get bigger. The data centers follow. That story is true. But it is incomplete. The AI infrastructure boom

Lionel Messi broke the World Cup scoring record for goals scored today because the beautiful game still has room for what systems cannot optimize. On Monday, June 22, 2026, Messi scored twice in Argentina’s 2-0 win over Austria in Arlington, Texas, giving him 18 career World Cup goals