Though politicians are quiet about how they use AI, the book Rewiring Democracy examines how AI is starting to influence American politics

Eight months of disrupted AI abuse, read case by case and boiled down to a 20-page document with every claim linked to its source

Digital Realty re-signed large leases 66.7% higher as its assumed cost of new debt rose to as much as 5.5%. Higher rates reach a data center through whichever one resets first.

What Michael Lewis Reveals About DOGE’s War on Civil Servants

Top 12 Global Announcements in AI Infrastructure, and what they tell you about who signs, who funds, who backs the payments, and what still has to be built

Oracle, Broadcom and SpaceX are in talks to finance AI chips, with Apollo at the table. Each deal uses a different structure to make the money work, and each still needs a powered building.

Data show damage to service quality and taxpayer privacy in a more politicized agency

Attackers remotely defrosted refrigerators at multiple French supermarket chains overnight in a cyberattack that reportedly targeted Danfoss refrigeration controllers.

Across the AI buildout's offerings this autumn, the money is still moving, at a higher price and with more conditions attached. A change in temperature, not a change of season.

Nscale, SB Energy and Oracle hold the far end of the AI labs' largest commitments. Their own filings measure those commitments on a different scale from the announcements.

When I first read that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wanted to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist who murdered 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, my reaction was...

Equipment Checks, System Testing, Integrated Testing Under Load, Tenant Sign-Off, Uptime Tier and ISO, Revenue Timing

Everyone knew what happened at Cornell was wrong.

An investment grade on chip debt rests on the borrower, the contracts or the supplier. The supplier is already on SpaceX's ledger, as a shareholder.

Google Cloud said in September 2026 that it plans to double its technical infrastructure in Brazil by 2030. Inside how to turn a compute pledge into megawatts, leases, and a site.

Lambda closed a $1.0 billion GPU loan in October 2026, rated Baa1 by Moody's. Inside how contracts, a delayed draw, and a fixed rate turn servers into debt built for insurers.

The hyperscaler boom is crowding out other investment

Limit testing every AI subscription plan from Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, SpaceXSI, MiniMax, Moonshot, Z.ai, Cursor, and Cognition

With his spitefulness to the press, Donald Trump is giving it the chance to reform how it covers the presidency

Go to http://ground.news/pb for a better way to stay informed. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access to worldwide coverage through my link. In July 2026, a swarm of more than 1,000 OpenAI AI…

The Terafab Record, three months on: seven descriptions of one chip plant, and the decision they leave open.

Civil and Site Work, Shell and Structure, MEP and Equipment Lead Times, QA/QC at Installation, Compounding Delays, Predictable Delivery

Industry-backed preemption arguments in the climate deception case threaten the federalism safeguards that check an imperial presidency.

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of tr...

Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are readying themselves to fend off a Russian attack—with the help of the United States, or without it.

A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews…

Hackers stole thousands of FBI employees’ data, including about new hires and people in sensitive roles. It’s like giving a foreign adversary a gold mine.

AI employees are raising concerns about an extinction-level event. But there’s a more immediate threat.

Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ultimately improve cybersecurity.

The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.

SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.

Ethernet ports are still desirable on desktop PCs, hanging on alongside the likes of the 3.5mm audio jack and IEC mains connector.

On May 11th, 2026, hundreds of malicious packages were uploaded to RubyGems by AI agents performing web-lookup tasks with significant overlap with the German Wiki Incident.

With frontier AI companies’ money on the line, a mutual insurer would enforce standards, peer review incidents, and pool safety research and development.

When a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left behind a public trail of evidence.

Fixed-price EPC and liquidated damages, O&M deduction architecture, SLA service credit ceilings, back-to-back structuring, the gaps between all three

Old GPUs are holding their value. New ones command a scarcity premium. Memory explains why.

Blame Trump for rising borrowing costs.

Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

How data centers are shifting from WUE to site-specific water resilience, with cooling tradeoffs, sourcing, policy, and community impacts.

AI refresh cycles are pushing enterprise GPUs onto the secondary market at unprecedented volumes.

Every data center announcement names a number of megawatts. That number sits on one of four steps, and only the last one means a building is coming.

In the spring of 1945, as representatives of fifty countries gathered in San Francisco to design what would become the United Nations, people were still dying in the Second World War.

A dozen insurance and institutional investors closed the five-year data center development facility in September 2026. Inside the Evercore and Wells Fargo Securities structure built to revolve.