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AI's big winners draft their own rules

AI's big winners draft their own rules

Tech luminaries spent the week proposing the taxes and rules to govern AI, before voters write worse ones

OpenAI's price cut is a confession

OpenAI's price cut is a confession

AI's risk goes off the books, but still lurks

AI's risk goes off the books, but still lurks

To beat Apple, Google skips the earbuds

To beat Apple, Google skips the earbuds

// Vector Magazine — ISSUE-05 June 7, 2026

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Money for nothing

Companies can price AI to the token. Almost none can say what it bought.

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Dry Powder ▸

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AI's risk goes off the books, but still lurks

Wall Street learns to short the AI boom

Wall Street learns to short the AI boom

Even Google is running out of cash

Even Google is running out of cash

Robinhood wants to own agentic trading

Robinhood wants to own agentic trading

State ▸

AI's big winners draft their own rules

AI's big winners draft their own rules

Anthropic's offensive AI lands inside the NSA

Anthropic's offensive AI lands inside the NSA

Trump's AI order ties the government's hands

Trump's AI order ties the government's hands

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Atoms ▸

NVIDIA hedges against its own data centers

NVIDIA hedges against its own data centers

Memory leaves the cycle

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Humanoid robots join the no-fly list

Humanoid robots join the no-fly list

Arm becomes SoftBank's spine

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Labs ▸

OpenAI's price cut is a confession

OpenAI's price cut is a confession

Anthropic won't sell you its best model

Anthropic won't sell you its best model

Anthropic calls for a pause (sort of)

Anthropic calls for a pause (sort of)

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Energy ▸

Ford's new business is being American

Ford's new business is being American

CATL closes the loop on AI compute

CATL closes the loop on AI compute

Can the ocean be the next grid?

Can the ocean be the next grid?

The only renewable Trump kept goes public

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Bits ▸

To beat Apple, Google skips the earbuds

To beat Apple, Google skips the earbuds

Apple rents the brain, keeps the moat

Apple rents the brain, keeps the moat

Meta's $200 agent nobody asked for

Meta's $200 agent nobody asked for

Money for nothing

Money for nothing