Responsible Statecraft traces a newly minted foreign-policy think tank back to an Israeli influence effort, and argues its output is aimed less at policymakers than at the AI chatbots that scrape and cite think-tank material as neutral expertise.
Ben Thompson reads Stripe's reported purchase of OpenRouter as a bet that no single model wins, which makes the router sitting between developers and every provider the layer worth owning.
404 Media hid an AirTag in a bulk shipment of rare books sold to an anonymous, price-insensitive buyer and followed it to an Amazon AI training facility, where books are cut apart, scanned, and discarded.
Opening statements began in Oakland federal court, where attorneys general from 29 states argue Meta knowingly built Instagram and Facebook to be compulsive for minors. The states consolidated into one case rather than suing separately.