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3 weeks ago | thedispatch.com | Shoshana Weissmann |Scott Lincicome |Michael Brown |Tal Fortgang

“Our GPUs are melting,” Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI tweeted just days after the company released its news image generator o the public. He was celebrating the high demand for the product, and he later announced the company was discussing building its own data center. The world is learning in real time that AI is a transformational technology that brings with it new needs, particularly when it comes to U.S. infrastructure and our electrical grid.

1 month ago | thedispatch.com | Michael Warren |Jonah Goldberg |Michael Brown |Grayson Logue

A month into his term, Vice President J.D. Vance may be both on social media. Published February 25, 2025 On Saturday afternoon, a message from Elon Musk appeared in thousands of federal workers’ email inboxes, sent from the Office of Personnel Management, with the subject line “What did you do last week?” The email requested a reply with “approx.

2 months ago | thedispatch.com | Nathan J. Beacom |Will Rinehart |Michael Brown |Charles Hilu

When the phonograph was invented, the composer John Phillip Sousa was heartbroken. In a 1906 article on “The Menace of Mechanical Music,” he worried out loud that recording tools would reduce music from a matter of the heart and soul to a mere mechanical process. To us, this sounds ridiculous. It is clear that we have gained a great deal by the advancement of recording technology, which makes available to us a massive variety of beautiful music.

2 months ago | thedispatch.com | Rachael Larimore |Jonah Goldberg |Michael Brown |Michael Warren

Hello and happy Saturday. On Thursday, the Trump administration, through the Office of Personnel Management, advised federal agencies to shrink their workforces by laying off probationary employees—workers who hadn’t been on the job long enough to secure civil service protections. A decision that could leave up to hundreds of thousands of people jobless might normally dominate headlines, but the biggest news of the week was about a series of voluntary resignations.

2 months ago | thedispatch.com | Sarah Isgur |Michael Brown |Kevin Williamson

Taking pride in the Saturday Night Massacre. By and Published February 14, 2025 Is President Donald Trump breaking the Justice Department or simply reshaping its priorities? As federal prosecutors resign, Sarah Isgur and David French debate whether we’re looking at another Saturday Night Massacre—and whether that’s how the justice system should work. The Agenda:—What is (and isn’t) lawless?