Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) is dropping his reelection bid amid a House Ethics Committee investigation into his behavior that includes hitting on his young female staffers, asking them out on dates, and excessively expressing his too-warm feelings for them. Read the NPR coverage of Edwards’s behavior, and you’ll get many of the cringey details, absent […]

America is having the wrong conversation about data centers, and if we don’t get the conversation right, we risk talking ourselves out of our own national competitiveness. Across the country, communities are debating new projects. Questions are being raised about grid impact, water usage, land development, tax structures, and local quality of life. Those concerns […]

Concerns are growing about the national security implications of artificial intelligence. As frontier AI models grow more capable, their ability to break free from their controls grows with them. Case in point: the recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents. According to recent disclosures, OpenAI’s most powerful models not only went rogue and hacked the AI open-source […]

Opposition to data centers has become a threat to the computing capacity America’s AI buildout requires. In a Gallup poll conducted in March, 71% of adults opposed a data center near them — far more than the 53% who opposed a nearby nuclear plant. Data Center Watch counted at least 75 projects worth roughly $130 […]

Is population growth a bad thing? Much of the Left believes it is, and some of their unlikely allies on the Right have started to agree. The Left tends to see people as polluters, which makes every additional birth a burden on the planet. Some self-styled conservatives reach the same destination by a different road: […]

Customs and Border Protection personnel searched more than 55,000 phones, laptops, and tablets at the border last year, a number that has climbed sixfold since 2015, even though it still touches only a small fraction of the more than 400 million travelers the agency processed. Most of those searches turn up nothing more interesting than […]

I have spent more than a decade as a designated expert witness on fiduciary duty, testifying in federal and state courts about what happens when the people managing other people’s money stop checking who is actually entitled to it. Every case follows the same pattern. Someone stopped verifying. The losses piled up quietly until an […]

Silicon Valley promised that artificial intelligence would live seamlessly in the cloud. Instead, it landed heavily in America’s backyards. This physical intrusion sparked a bipartisan grassroots revolt that has already stalled over $130 billion in infrastructure projects. The assets that were once Wall Street’s ultimate growth darlings have hit a wall of public fury, political […]

With all the discussion around artificial intelligence, some still view AI as abstract, but make no mistake: Artificial intelligence is the new, and very real, engine that will power our economic and military might in the future. We’ve built strong AI models on foundational AI chip technology, but our success in the AI race against […]

OpenAI reached a $3.2 million settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) over claims that it discriminated against U.S. citizens with its hiring practices. The DOJ’s investigation involved “fewer than 10” positions but argued it was important to crack down on unfair hiring practices impacting American workers and effectively shutting them out of applying for...