A computer science student trained an AI exclusively on texts from 1800-1875 London. When he prompted it about 1834, the model described street protests and Lord Palmerston. He Googled it. The protests were real. What does it mean when an AI starts accidentally telling the truth about history?
Meta just named a Goldman Sachs banker—not an AI researcher—to lead its $600 billion infrastructure buildout. The appointment signals that AI has become a capital and political problem, not a technical one. Powell McCormick's job is handshakes in Riyadh and zoning hearings in Nevada.
Anthropic just gave everyone access to the same AI agent developers have been using for eleven months. Claude Cowork runs in a sandbox, but the prompt injection problem remains unsolved. The safety of the system now rests on users who don't know what they're asking for.
Meta just named a Goldman Sachs banker—not an AI researcher—to lead its $600 billion infrastructure buildout. The appointment signals that AI has become a capital and political problem, not a technical one. Powell McCormick's job is handshakes in Riyadh and zoning hearings in Nevada.
The job posting didn't ask for an engineer.
On Monday, Meta named Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chairman, a role that will put a Goldman Sachs veteran and former Trump administration official at the center of the company's artificial intelligence ambitions. Not running model training. Not optimizing inference. Her job is handshakes in Riyadh and zoning hearings in Nevada. Building relationships with governments and sovereign wealth funds that can finance infrastructure that no private company can build alone.
Read that job description again. Build. Deploy. Invest. Finance. Four verbs, and not one of them involves writing code.
Mark Zuckerberg announced the appointment hours before unveiling Meta Compute, a new initiative to construct "tens of gigawatts" of data center capacity this decade and "hundreds of gigawatts or more over time." The company has committed $600 billion in US infrastructure investment by 2028. Last year alone, capital expenditures hit $72 billion.
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Google and Character.AI settled lawsuits from families of teenagers who died after talking to chatbots. No liability admitted. No trial. The first AI harm settlements reveal what the industry fears most: discovery.
Larry Page quietly moved his family office out of California before the wealth tax hits. Jensen Huang says he hasn't even thought about it. Two billionaires, one state, opposite responses and a revealing question about what citizenship means at the top.
Larry Page dismantled his California ties in late December. Jensen Huang said he hadn't thought about the tax once. Both face billion-dollar bills. The divergence reveals something deeper than economics: what happens when builders become allocators.
Greg Brockman wrote a $25 million check to Trump's super PAC eight days after a White House dinner. Three months later, Trump signed an order blocking all state AI regulation. For the cost of a seed round, OpenAI bought a federal off-switch.
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