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Mar 8, 2026 5 min read

Washington State Just Blinked First – and Big Tech’s Tax Holiday Is Over

Washington State's move to eliminate data center tax exemptions signals the end of a two-decade race-to-the-bottom where states paid Big…

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AI Cancelling Humanities Grants Is a Test Run for Every Federal Programme

DOGE's use of ChatGPT to cancel NEH grants was not an anomaly - it was a proof of concept for…

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The People Who Built ChatGPT Are Quietly Funding the Institutions DOGE Just Destroyed

DOGE used ChatGPT to destroy the NEH's independent AI ethics research. OpenAI was already building the private alternative. Follow the…

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Altman’s Pentagon Deal Is the Endpoint His Critics Always Warned About

Sam Altman's Pentagon deal completes a transformation that began long before 2026. From his 2023 firing for lacking candour to…

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Every AI Lab Is Watching Altman Get Away With It – That’s the Dangerous Part

Sam Altman misled his board, faced no real consequence, and built OpenAI into a defence contractor. Every AI CEO has…

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OpenAI’s Pentagon Deal Handed Anthropic the Moral High Ground It Needed

OpenAI's Pentagon deal forced Anthropic into a strategic trap: either sustain commercial pain as the safety-first alternative or negotiate a…

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DOGE Used AI to Gut the Humanities – and Nobody Can Audit the Decision

DOGE used ChatGPT to cancel 1,400 NEH grants via 120-character AI queries, generating a paper trail so thin that recipients…

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Pentagon Didn’t Buy OpenAI’s Technology – It Bought Its Safety Narrative

The Pentagon's OpenAI deal isn't about battlefield AI capabilities - it's about acquiring a regulatory shield before Congress passes binding…

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Five Years From Now OpenAI Will Be a Defence Contractor First and an AI Lab Second

OpenAI's Pentagon deal is not a one-off contract - it is the opening move in an institutional transformation that, within…

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OpenAI’s Safety Researchers Are the Quiet Casualties of the Pentagon Deal

OpenAI's Pentagon deal did not just spark a PR crisis - it quietly invalidated the institutional premise of the company's…