A researcher named Jacob Coxon recently walked away from Anthropic, one of the companies sitting at the front edge of the artificial intelligence revolution. Coxon had also worked at OpenAI. He wasn’t watching this industry from the cheap seats. He had spent years inside two of the companies actually building the technology. And when he left Anthropic, his concern wasn’t simply that artificial intelligence is scary. It was that the race to build increasingly powerful systems

For years, tech companies sold Americans a comforting illusion called “the cloud.” It sounded soft. Weightless. Almost magical. Our photos, messages, streaming services, and social media posts were supposedly floating somewhere in the digital heavens like electronic fireflies. But the reality is far less poetic. The cloud is physical. It has buildings, cooling towers, power substations, diesel generators, pipelines, tax incentives, and environmental consequences. Increasingly

The Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, was destroyed in a missile strike on February 28, 2026. By now, the only folks who haven’t heard this are hermits. At least 175 were killed, over 100 of which were schoolchildren Yet, weeks later, with all the technology we’re told exists—satellites, surveillance, intelligence networks, precision-guided weapons—we still don’t have a clear explanation for how that happened. Not a real one. Not one that makes you s