who benefits from ai
Today's article asks the right question for the first time in 10 days of news. Who actually benefits from AI? Not who lobbied the bill. Not who got the federal regulation. Not who showed up to the pro...
13 Touko 3min
trump regulates mythos ai
Yesterday I said the federal layer was coming. I thought 18 months. It took 18 hours. Trump signed an executive order this morning to regulate AI development — triggered by Anthropic's Mythos model.Th...
9 Touko 2min
ai can cure rare diseases
Six days I've spent on the politics of AI — who got told, paid, asked, recorded, who showed up, who got the bill distributed before the senator read it. Today is a different question. Does the technol...
8 Touko 3min
boise idaho cannot stop ai
Boise is not Berkeley. It's not San Francisco. It's not Cambridge. It's a small Idaho city of 240,000 people — a place where the AI conversation usually doesn't happen — and a group of citizens callin...
6 Touko 3min
ai medical transcribers
The AI conversation walked into the doctor's office today. Should you let your physician record your visit? Should you trust an AI scribe to listen to the most private conversation you'll have this ye...
5 Touko 2min
connecticut regulates humans for ai
Connecticut just passed the first state AI law that names what it actually regulates — parents, workers, companies. Not abstract principles. Specific people, specific protections. Yesterday I predicte...
4 Touko 2min
taxes on ai hurts who
A Bill Gates 2017 idea — the "robot tax" — is back on the op-ed pages in 2026, dressed in new clothes. The framing is wrong, but the underlying question doesn't disappear because the policy proposal i...
3 Touko 2min
ai screens you as not needing help
Anoka County, Minnesota — 350,000 people — quietly deployed AI to screen every non-emergency 311 call. No keynote. No announcement. They just shipped it.This is how AI actually arrives in your town: n...
2 Touko 2min
