A handful of AI companies now control the core infrastructure for thinking, searching, writing, coding, teaching, deciding. They do not just sell tools. They become the terrain. That is where neo-feudalism starts to make sense as a frame. In old feudalism, the lord owned the land. In AI neo-feudalism, the platform owns the cognitive land. You do not farm wheat on it - you farm attention, content, software, insight, distribution, relationships, income. And the peasants are not

We all look at independence as a strength. "Oh look at Sarah and how independent she is, she doesn’t need anyone to help her financially or emotionally. She has it all worked out for herself." On the outside yes, and a level of independence is important for all of us, but when it becomes part of your survival mechanism then we have a problem. Independence can start to instill in us that we do not need anyone else, that we can do everything ourselves and we can walk this world

Shattered glass wall stamped with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and xAI above the words control, alignment, safety, deployment, profit - breaking to reveal a green digital landscape beyond. On Friday, Dario Amodei published an essay called We Must Pace the Frontier, arguing the industry should deliberately slow the rate at which AI capabilities improve. Sam Altman echoed the substance within hours. Elon Musk endorsed it publicly. These three have not agreed on anything i