Two AI labs are funding rival super PACs to pick your next member of Congress. SoftBank pledges seventy-five billion euros to power France while a federal regulator decides who pays for the grid. A Trump-linked startup ships humanoid robots toward the front line in Ukraine. A Big Four firm gets caught publishing hallucinated citations. And the week ends with investors, a Pope, and the White House AI czar all circling the same word: power.Public First vs Leading the Future: the campaign-money fight over AI rulesSoftBank's €75B France bet and FERC's June grid proposalFoundation Robotics, Eric Trump, and autonomous humanoids in warEY's fabricated citations and corporate America rationing AIBill Gurley, Pope Leo, David Sacks, and the centralization questionTerence Tao on what AI actually changed for mathematicians
