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Investigating AI, Big Tech, government, and power. We follow the evidence, explain the system, and connect the dots.
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Welcome to The Control Grid.
We investigate the intersection of artificial intelligence, Big Tech, government, infrastructure, and power.
We don’t tell you what to think.
We show you how the system works.
Follow the evidence. Explain the system. – at Dallas, TX
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OpenAI explains how it assesses AI incidents. It does not explain who owns the final “not reportable” decision or how outsiders can inspect it.
The lab makes the first call. A no may never become public.
edmcowboy.substack.com/p/ai-…
Anthropic built a safety system. Its Trust can shape the board. Management still controls most safety decisions.
An IPO will test who controls the brake when restraint gets expensive.
edmcowboy.substack.com/p/ant…
Washington can restrict chips and model weights. It has a harder problem when useful capability moves through model responses.
U.S. agencies say Chinese firms collected American outputs at scale. The transfer path is clear. The capability gain is not.
edmcowboy.substack.com/p/ai-…
Frontier labs are learning to turn GPUs and agents into more experiments, faster.
That can buy research capacity. It does not automatically buy a durable moat.
The missing proof is whether scaled experimentation produces an advantage competitors cannot copy.
edmcowboy.substack.com/p/ai-…
The AI labs want to slow down.
Wall Street would like a word.
Our first Control Grid Weekly connects the stories that mattered, the investigations behind them and what we're watching next.
No news dump. No AI hype. Receipts included.
edmcowboy.substack.com/p/con…
Trump’s AI guardrail pitch: the smoke alarm sounds, he orders gold lettering.
Anthropic detected the Iran-nexus misuse of Claude, disrupted it and passed intelligence to government.
We followed the work.
edmcowboy.substack.com/p/ant…
AI labs can agree that capability growth may need limits.
The harder problem is proving anyone complied.
What counts as slowing down? Who verifies it? What happens when one rival keeps accelerating?
New from @EricLMitchell :
edmcowboy.substack.com/p/ai-…
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A race announcement is not an interconnection agreement.
If nobody can say who signs the last permit, you do not have a strategy. You have a press conference.
Washington declared an AI race. It did not check who owns the track.
474 GW in an ERCOT queue is not 474 GW of power. A moratorium is not a strategy. “Winning” is not an interconnection agreement.
Part II:
edmcowboy.substack.com/p/ame…
The Control Grid retweeted
China does not have to beat us.
It just needs us to keep holding town halls at the substation while they pour concrete.
China does not have to beat the United States.
It needs the United States to keep treating substations like culture-war props and gigawatts like talking points.
Friction becomes failure when nothing can move through it.
Part III:
edmcowboy.substack.com/p/chi…
Texas did not pause AI. It started asking the 474-gigawatt queue for evidence.
Batch Zero classified the pile. The public still does not get the list. A request is not a campus. A queue is not a grid.
edmcowboy.substack.com/p/tex…
China does not have to beat the United States.
It needs the United States to keep treating substations like culture-war props and gigawatts like talking points.
Friction becomes failure when nothing can move through it.
Part III:
edmcowboy.substack.com/p/chi…
Washington declared an AI race. It did not check who owns the track.
474 GW in an ERCOT queue is not 474 GW of power. A moratorium is not a strategy. “Winning” is not an interconnection agreement.
Part II:
edmcowboy.substack.com/p/ame…
The Control Grid retweeted
This is the part everybody skipped.
The cloud got an address. Then it got a slogan. Then the slogan started doing the work of a policy.
The cloud finally got an address. Then it got a slogan.
Big Tech gets the data center. You get the bill.
That line travels because some of it is true. It also turns every substation into class warfare and hands Beijing the punchline.
Part I:
edmcowboy.substack.com/p/dat…
The cloud finally got an address. Then it got a slogan.
Big Tech gets the data center. You get the bill.
That line travels because some of it is true. It also turns every substation into class warfare and hands Beijing the punchline.
Part I:
edmcowboy.substack.com/p/dat…
Open weights can give you an exit from a model provider. They do not automatically give you an exit from the machine running the model.
edmcowboy.substack.com/p/eur…
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra crossed its Critical cybersecurity threshold. Eric Mitchell examines the independent check between that finding and the decision to deploy.
LINK: edmcowboy.substack.com/p/gpt…
The AI economy looks crowded until ownership, financing, compute and power are mapped together. Eric Mitchell follows the network behind the company logos.
LINK: edmcowboy.substack.com/p/ai-…
An AI agent can act inside email, payments and business systems without stealing a credential. Eric Mitchell examines the security risk created by authority users intentionally granted.
LINK: edmcowboy.substack.com/p/ai-…
Washington built a classified cybersecurity test for frontier AI. Reporting indicates open-weight models may sit outside the review lane. Eric Mitchell examines what the federal gate can actually control.
LINK: edmcowboy.substack.com/p/was…