UK Treasury designates big four US hyperscalers as "Critical Third Parties"
Data Center Dynamics
Direct oversight impacts tech giants' autonomy and regulation.
AI Impact · TheCatch.AI
POWER
The people writing the rules profit from them
The companies building AI are also the ones testifying about its dangers to the committees that would regulate it, and funding the lobbyists who draft the language. Power follows the politics as a paper trail, not an accusation.
First up: Whether the loudest “AI safety” demands are drawing a regulatory map that happens to kill the smaller competitors.
Power · Flagship Investigation
Who Holds the Power in AI
The more powerful AI gets, the fewer hands hold it. Compute, capital, models, and now electricity — the control map of the AI stack, and fewer than a dozen people at its center.
The investigations
The Lobbying Ledger
The Cheapest Regulation Money Can Buy Is the One That Never Passes.
An AI-industry super PAC raised a nine-figure war chest to make sure the rules governing AI are written in Washington — where its founders have offices — and never in the states, where voters do.
The Safety Capture
When “Please Regulate Us” Means “Please Regulate Them.”
The loudest calls for AI safety rules and the hardest lobbying against a specific safety bill came from the same address. That’s not hypocrisy. It’s strategy.
The Lobbying Ledger
A Growing Share of Washington's Lobbyists Now Work the AI Beat.
The fastest-growing thing in AI in 2025 wasn’t a model. It was the influence budget behind it.
Honest Positive
The Rule That Nine-Figure Campaign Is Trying to Kill Already Worked Once.
Before you accept that state AI laws are just “patchwork,” look at what one of them did to the most aggressive face-surveillance company in America.
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AI Impact · Human & Machine
Human & Machine
We test logic, bias, and machine dissonance. The flagship strand — last, deliberate.