1 The US is dismantling itself
A foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck its standing in the world. (Wired $)
+ We need to talk about whether Donald Trump might be losing it. (New Yorker $)
2 Big Tech is taking on more debt to fund its AI aspirations
And the bubble just keeps growing. (WP $)
+ Forget unicorns. 2026 is shaping up to be the year of the “hectocorn.” (The Guardian)
+ Everyone in tech agrees we’re in a bubble. They just can’t agree on what happens when it pops. (MIT Technology Review)
3 DOGE accessed even more personal data than we thought
Even now, the Trump administration still can’t say how much data is at risk, or what it was used for. (NPR)
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