Power & systems
Regulation, geopolitics, economics: who decides, who pays, who wins in the game being played around AI.
Regulation · Geopolitics · Economy — 100 articles
How a 93% from an OpenAI lawsuit became a marketing stat
We tracked the number from outlet to outlet.
Alexandre Noto · Sep 22, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systemsAustralia wants artists to block AI themselves
But the method raises a question.
Katja Liersch · Sep 16, 2026 · 6 min
The Verified NumberSeven in 10 Americans oppose a data center in their area
We opened the poll.
Alexandre Noto · Sep 15, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systemsTo save water, servers are bathing in a forever chemical
Nobody knows how much of it is produced.
Julien-Pierre Noto · Sep 14, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systemsNvidia sells chips to Anthropic and wants into its IPO
On Saturday, Anthropic's CEO published 3,800 words asking the industry to slow down. His own company's listing doesn't come up once.
Julien-Pierre Noto · Sep 13, 2026 · 7 min
Power & systemsOpenAI wants a law on incidents its own models cause
OpenAI took four months to comment publicly on the May incident.
Alexandre Noto · Sep 13, 2026 · 7 min
Power & systemsAnthropic publishes three scenarios for 2030
Modest, substantial, extreme. Which one is most likely?
Julien-Pierre Noto · Sep 10, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systemsNvidia buys Hugging Face
Hugging Face said no to $500 million. Then yes to $12.93 billion.
Julien-Pierre Noto · Sep 4, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systemsNew York pulls AI from nearly 600,000 students
What about the adults teaching them?
Katja Liersch · Sep 3, 2026 · 6 min
The Verified NumberThe 2% data center water figure comes from a report to Congress
We went and checked the source.
Katja Liersch · Sep 1, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systemsIn China, 95% of New Micro-Dramas Now Have No Actors
But what about the audience?
Julien-Pierre Noto · Aug 30, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systemsBefore banning Anthropic, the Pentagon threatened to commandeer it
Eighteen months to clear Anthropic for classified work. Four pages to brand it a national security risk.
Julien-Pierre Noto · Aug 28, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systemsMcKinsey Says AI Still Isn't Showing Up in the Books
The report is called 'On the road to ROI.'
Julien-Pierre Noto · Aug 26, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systemsThe Regulator Didn't Need the Word AI to Fine Uber
824,990,000 euros for driver accounts switched off without a single human ever looking.
Julien-Pierre Noto · Aug 24, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systemsWhat an SEC Staff Office Wrote About Data-Center Money
Who holds the risk when billions finance a data center? An SEC office answered in a letter.
Julien-Pierre Noto · Aug 19, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systemsAustralia: none of the six links in the age-check report go where they claim
The vendor says every citation was checked by hand. All six links on page 94 lead to a different paper, or to nothing at all.
Alexandre Noto · Aug 17, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systemsThe question 1,106 Americans answered, and no French worker did
France counts companies, not the people working in them.
Julien-Pierre Noto · Aug 16, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systemsThe traps in Claude's new text watermark
The watermark will show up where you least expect it: Anthropic warns the mark stays on a text Claude only proofread or translated.
Alexandre Noto · Aug 13, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systemsIndia: What the Central Bank Wants When AI Says No
89% of Indian adults have a bank account, only 14.5% borrowed from one over twelve months. The RBI governor is betting on AI to close that gap.
Julien-Pierre Noto · Aug 13, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systemsUK Employment Tribunals and the AI Claims That Aren't in the Data
UK employment tribunal claims are up 39%. The word AI doesn't appear once in the official report.
Julien-Pierre Noto · Aug 10, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systemsTime Now Serves Chatbots a Separate Page, Ads Included
Same URL, two different documents: HTML for browsers, Markdown for ClaudeBot. And it's the robot version that carries the ads.
Katja Liersch · Aug 8, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systemsMicrosoft Limits How Much AI Its Own Teams Can Use
Since July, every Microsoft division has an AI spending cap. The company that owns the data centers finds the bill worth watching closely.
Julien-Pierre Noto · Aug 5, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systems$375 million in two days to secure AI agents
$375 million raised in two days to protect companies from their own AI agents. Fewer than one in five has several of them working together.
Alexandre Noto · Aug 4, 2026 · 6 min
Power & systemsFrance Held Off Google's AI Overviews for Two Years
Since July 22, Google has been answering search queries directly in France. Two years after everywhere else, and nobody was ready.
Katja Liersch · Aug 2, 2026 · 6 min