The financial markets are increasingly concerned about true demand for the computing services that are at the heart of the AI revolution. Anthropic, a leading developer of frontier AI models, is expected to go public next week. It will be valued at around $1.4 trillion, which sounds fantastic. The problem? The expected valuation has dropped […]

Buried in the coverage of Judge Darrin Gayles’s dismissal of President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation suit against the Wall Street Journal was one factoid emblematic of the country’s obsession with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Trump sued the outlet when it broke a front-page story about an album celebrating Epstein’s 50th birthday that apparently […]

Asked by Ross Douthat of 60 Minutes to explain why Republicans suffered such a historic defeat last Tuesday, President Donald Trump said the No. 1 reason his party lost was that he was personally absent from the ballot. He then cited the Iran war and its effect on gas prices before naming Israel. “There seems […]