Sam Morris

China's "Routine" Missile Lands in a Nuclear-Free Zone

Jul 6, 2026

Beijing tested a submarine ballistic missile in the South Pacific on the same day Australia signed a defence treaty with Fiji. Pure coincidence, we're sure.

AI Music Can Stream. It Just Can't Get Money.

Jul 3, 2026

Platforms are done labelling the flood. Now they're choking its cash.

The USMCA Is Not Renewed. The Kill Switch Was Made in America.

Jul 2, 2026

Trump lets his own trade deal wither.

Ukraine's Drones Gave Russia a Fuel Crisis

Jul 1, 2026

The drone war on Russia's refineries is working. Putin just admitted it.

Student Loan Changes Hit Tomorrow. The Gap Goes Private.

Jun 30, 2026

New caps shrink loans for grad and professional students. The shortfall heads to private lenders.

AI Glasses Turning Exams Into a Pay-to-Win Game

Jun 29, 2026

Smart glasses can read the paper and feed back the answers.

Apple Raises Prices. AI Eats the Difference.

Jun 26, 2026

The memory shortage stops being abstract the moment it hits your cart.

Target's Shareholder Revolt Hit a Record. Cornell Kept His Chair.

Jun 25, 2026

A record-low vote, a recovering business, and a chairman going nowhere until 2027.

World Cup 2026 ticket buyers paid for one seat (FIFA gave them another)

Jun 24, 2026

The price gouging got the headlines. The seat swap will get the lawsuit.

SpaceX Has $100 Billion. It's Borrowing Anyway.

Jun 23, 2026

The market stopped pricing rockets and started pricing the debt.

Budget Airlines Are Collapsing, and So Is the Cheap Flight

Jun 22, 2026

Spirit's gone, Frontier and JetBlue are bleeding, and the $39 fare is officially extinct.

A Fed Rate Hike Is Back in Play for 2026

Jun 19, 2026

Warsh held rates steady, then scrapped the cut and dangled a hike.

World Cup 2026 surveillance makes your face the ticket

Jun 18, 2026

The largest football tournament ever is also the largest civilian face-scan ever.

NVIDIA's $25 Billion Bond Sale Isn't About Cash

Jun 17, 2026

The AI buildout is a debt story.

Britain's Social Media Ban Copies a Fight Australia Lost

Jun 16, 2026

Starmer is borrowing Australia's playbook. Australia's own regulator says the playbook isn't working.

AI's Appetite Just Tripled Your RAM Prices

Jun 15, 2026

Three chipmakers feed the data centres. Your gear pays for it.

The SpaceX IPO Sells a Rocket. You're Buying a Dish.

Jun 12, 2026

A $1.75 trillion debut where one division earns and two burn.

OpenAI's IPO Wants a Trillion. The Receipts Say Otherwise.

Jun 11, 2026

Two cash-burning AI labs are racing to Wall Street before public investors see the losses.

China's $295 billion AI Data Centre Plan Is an Eviction Notice

Jun 10, 2026

Beijing's five-year compute blueprint locks American chips out.

Meta's Billion-Dollar AI Chips Now Live in Tents

Jun 9, 2026

The maths says it's a cold, rational bet.

Apple Gemini Siri Means Apple Is Winning AI by Skipping It

Jun 8, 2026

The most valuable tech firm chose to rent, not build.

Wikipedia's Volunteers Find Their Off Switch

Jun 4, 2026

The people who can't be fired turn out to have the most leverage.

Stocks Are Priced for a Rate Cut. Bonds say, Good Luck.

Jun 3, 2026

The record rally needs cheaper money. Inflation is hiding the key.

Meta's AI Resets Passwords for Strangers

Jun 2, 2026

A support assistant with superuser powers and no security.

DuckDuckGo Caught Google's Runaways

Jun 1, 2026

Force-feed people AI and some of them go looking for the door.