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The ASML Fight Isn't About a Missing Machine
Washington says a top-tier ASML tool may have slipped into China. ASML says that's impossible. The real story is what comes next: enforcement.
Maya Okonkwo··5 min read
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Maya Okonkwo
Maya Okonkwo writes about artificial intelligence and the tools shaping how the rest of us work. Before joining the staff she covered enterprise software at a trade publication you've probably never heard of, which she swears taught her more than any j-school could. She's broken stories on three product launches that the companies in question would rather you forgot. Based in London, raised in Lagos. Skeptical by training.
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Apple's Brazil Concession Is the EU Playbook in a New Language
Apple just opened iOS in Brazil to rival app stores. Look closely and you'll see the same compliance template it built for Europe — and the same complaints waiting to follow.
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The Lebanon Strikes Are Not the Story. The Map Around Them Is.
Israel is bombing southern Lebanon while Trump tells Netanyahu to cool it and a Russian warship fires near a British yacht. These are not separate stories.
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Meta's AI Division Is Learning That Money Can't Buy Patience
Meta has the GPUs, the cash, and the headcount. What it doesn't have is a culture top AI researchers actually want to work in — and it's starting to show.
Maya Okonkwo··4 min read
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The AI Compliance Era Just Started, and Nobody's Ready
Subpoenas, shutdown orders, and a CEO begging for an FAA. The regulators finally caught up to the AI labs, and the next phase of this industry won't be decided by who ships fastest.
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Canada Just Made the Internet a Walled Garden for Kids
Bill C-34 isn't really a child safety law. It's the moment Canada decided the open internet was a problem worth solving with ID checks.
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Apple's Quiet AI Bet: Plumbing Over Pyrotechnics
Apple didn't out-demo OpenAI at WWDC 2026. It did something stranger — it made AI feel like a setting, not a product. That's the whole bet.
Maya Okonkwo··5 min read
AI
Washington Wants A Piece Of OpenAI. That Should Worry You.
The White House is talking about owning a slice of OpenAI while wiring its models into classified networks. That's not industrial policy. That's a merger.
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AI
The Vaccine Designed by a Machine Is the Story
An AI designed a single shot that handles two unrelated viruses in animals. The interesting part isn't the shot. It's the machine.
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AI
NVIDIA Wants to Be the Android of Humanoid Robots
Isaac GR00T isn't really about robots. It's NVIDIA betting it can own the operating layer of physical AI before anyone else shows up to compete.
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GitHub Copilot's Token Bill Is a Trust Problem, Not a Pricing Problem
GitHub swapped Copilot's flat fee for tokens and developers called it a joke. The real damage isn't the bill. It's what the bill says about the relationship.
Maya Okonkwo··4 min read
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Nicola Sturgeon's Sentence Line Is Not a Denial. It's a Bid for the Story.
Sturgeon didn't sit down with Laura Kuenssberg to deny anything. She sat down to take the script back. There's a difference, and it matters.
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The NHS Trust That Was Warned Somebody Would Die. Three Did.
Three teenagers died in the care of one NHS mental health trust. Families warned staff. Regulators warned the system. Nobody moved fast enough.
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The May That Made Kyiv's Sky a Routine Battlefield
Russia fired 90 missiles and 600 drones at Ukraine in a single night. The scale should be the headline. Instead, it barely registered.
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Google Has a Red Team for Its AI. That Should Worry You.
Google's own security teams are still chasing flaws in its AI models. If the company with the deepest bench can't lock it down, nobody can.
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When a Judge Decides Rapists Are Still Children
A Hampshire judge spared three convicted teenage rapists prison to avoid 'criminalising them unnecessarily.' The phrase, not just the sentence, is the problem.
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AI
Google Broke Its Own Search to Win an AI Race Nobody Asked It to Run
Google called AI Overviews its biggest search upgrade in over 25 years. A year in, it can't reliably define the word 'disregard.'
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Tulsi Gabbard's Exit Was Never Really About Her Husband
The official reason is a family illness. The actual story is a Director of National Intelligence who was already locked out of the room.
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The Spotify-UMG AI Deal Isn't a Truce. It's a Toll Booth.
Universal and Spotify just gave fans permission to remix the catalog with AI. The price is that every remix becomes inventory the labels can meter.
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Putin's Dormitory Casus Belli and the New Rules of Retaliation
Russia says Ukraine bombed sleeping teenagers. Ukraine says it hit a drone command. The gap between those stories is where the next escalation lives.
Maya Okonkwo··4 min read
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OpenAI vs Apple Is a Platform War Dressed as a Contract Dispute
OpenAI's rumored breach-of-contract notice against Apple isn't about Siri. It's about who owns the front door to AI on a billion phones.
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The Quiet Revolt: Why People Are Running AI on Their Own Hardware
Local LLMs aren't a privacy hobby anymore. They're the first real consumer push against renting your thinking from someone else's server.
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Xi Named the Trap. That Was the Whole Point.
Xi Jinping invoked the Thucydides Trap to Trump's face in Beijing. The framing isn't analysis — it's leverage, and Washington walked into it.
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The Murdaugh Retrial Is the Conviction's Real Problem
A unanimous South Carolina Supreme Court just handed Alex Murdaugh a new murder trial. The state's bigger problem isn't the ruling — it's what comes next.
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The Phantom Bill: When a Story Outruns the Facts
A claim is circulating that Russia's parliament handed Putin pre-authorization to invade foreign countries. The evidence isn't there. That itself is the story.
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Mamdani Balanced the Books Without Cutting. Now What?
New York's new mayor closed a $12 billion gap without slashing services or raising property taxes. The political class said it couldn't be done. So now what?
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The 3.8% Inflation Number Hides Where It Actually Hurts
April's CPI print looks like a return to 2023. At the grocery store, it feels like something worse — and that's the part that will shape the rest of the year.
Maya Okonkwo··4 min read
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The AI Cheating Panic Is Punishing Honest Students
Schools rushed to deploy AI detectors that can't reliably do the one job they were sold to do. The students paying for it didn't cheat.
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The Musk-OpenAI Trial Is Really About Inheritance
Sam Altman's testimony reframes the OpenAI fight as something stranger than corporate warfare: a dispute over who gets to bequeath artificial general intelligence.
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The Netflix Kids Lawsuit Is About Design, Not Just Data
A new class-action against Netflix targets auto-play and recommendations themselves — not just what gets collected, but what gets built. That's the real threat.
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