Glass Empires investigates the architects of constitutional rot. Free subscribers receive every article. Devoted readers who became patrons sponsored today’s work. Free Speech Now Requires Trump’s Permission, From Your Facebook Page to AI Research W. A. Lawrence July 3, 2026 Just In: Environmental research posted to Facebook can carry the… Continue reading
On the morning of May 25, Pope Leo XIV released “Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence,” his sweeping first encyclical. By 5 a.m., Dr. Mark Shiffman, a professor of philosophy at Saint Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park and the founding director of the… Continue reading
The CEO of the software company Salesforce, Marc Benioff, attends the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 23, 2025. (Photo by Halil Sagirkaya/Anadolu via Getty Images) The commission’s upcoming first meeting will focus on “strengthening AI infrastructure, accelerating AI’s impact on health, education,… Continue reading
When it comes to artificial intelligence, President Donald Trump’s second administration has taken a decidedly antiregulatory stance — until this month. One of Trump’s first moves in his second term was to ditch the modest AI safety guidelines issued by his predecessor, Joe Biden. After Congress over the summer overwhelmingly rejected a… Continue reading
Posted on June 27, 2026 by Ellen Brown (EllenBrown.com) As Americans prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, few are paying attention to a bill moving through Congress that could seriously impinge on our financial independence. The Clarity for Payment Stablecoins Act, H.R. 4766, is slated to make privately… Continue reading
In San Francisco, the artificial-intelligence boom still has a remarkably clean public image. It looks like office towers refilling, restaurants getting lunch traffic again, young engineers moving into Mission Bay and city leaders building political careers on the narrative of recovery. Across the rest of the country, it looks very… Continue reading
“There was no way as a grassroots person that I could compete with that kind of money.” By Joe Wilkins Published Jun 23, 2026 (Futurism.com) With trillions of dollars on the line, it should come as no surprise that tech companies are spending gobs of cash on the upcoming US midterm elections…. Continue reading
One’s a narcissist, the other’s a socialist, but there’s room for all in this improbable coming together. by Harold Meyerson June 15, 2026 (Prospect.org) The case for having the government take co-ownership of AI—make that the cases for having the government take co-ownership of AI—grow louder. I had to pluralize “case” since President Trump’s… Continue reading
ENDEVR Nov 28, 2025 Edge of Existence: AI | ENDEVR Documentary Watch the First Episode here: • Nuclear War: How Close Are We To The Edge … The risk of human extinction has never been higher. A very recent past has seen a global pandemic, a renewed nuclear threat, and runaway climate change. What if COVID-19 is merely a dress rehearsal for a… Continue reading
Posted on June 14, 2026 by Ellen Brown (ellenbrown.com) Project Hamilton, ECASH, and the Quest for a Privacy-Protected Digital Dollar The first two articles in this series explored the proposition that artificial intelligence and robotics will soon be ushering in an economy of unprecedented abundance, and examined the resource and energy constraints that could limit… Continue reading
