Emerging reality

AI Power Consolidation

AI development and deployment are centralizing technical, moral, legal, and financial authority into industry and state hands, reshaping judgment, governance, and evidence.

10 stories · 9 in the last two weeks

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is showcasing agentic coding tools pitched to do the jobs of early developers.
devfeed.tech · 11 sources
An industrywide emergency brake on advanced AI is needed to buy verifiable time for safety and oversight.
financialpost.com · 10 sources
AI in Catholic moral discernment is already reshaping conscience by routinizing judgment and moral attention.
vatican.va · 10 sources
AI-generated victim-impact videos: disclosed recreations or unreliable courtroom evidence?
exa.ai · 8 sources
The White House AI safety pledge will mainly act as a reputational norm-setter, not a binding brake on tech giants' race for superintelligence.
wired.com · 8 sources
Trump's "Super Intelligence Force" will steer AI toward a security-first, industry-led regime rather than enforceable public safeguards.
washingtonpost.com · 11 sources
Blackstone’s Jas Khaira is priming capital and infrastructure to bankroll a new generation of monopoly-scale AI firms, proponents warn.
bloomberg.com · 11 sources
Pope Leo XIV's claim that AI art lacks an ontological 'spark of humanity' reflects a defensible humanist ontology, proponents argue.
ewtnnews.com · 10 sources
AI-written press pitches are flooding newsrooms and often mask scams, a growing number of editors warn.
pressgazette.co.uk · 10 sources
AI models solving Marmont's 1809 cipher — a reproducible cryptanalytic breakthrough or an overfitted headline?
exa.ai · 9 sources