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The gig economy monetized hours through platforms. The AI passive economy monetizes assets and automation, but may reproduce the same concentration and volatility.

AI agents are becoming assets, but content saturation, platform dependence, regulation, and ownership will decide who captures the passive economy’s value.

The content of this article does not represent the views, policies, opinions, positions, or official statements of the U.S. Navy, the Department of Defense, the federal government, or any military or government organization. WASHINGTON, Two fundamentally different bets on the future of artificial intelligence infrastructure are now in direct competition, and the chief executives behind them are making that competition public. On one side: OpenAI's Stargate project, $500 billi

The content of this article does not represent the views, policies, opinions, positions, or official statements of the U.S. Navy, the Department of Defense, the federal government, or any military or government organization. WASHINGTON, On Feb. 2, 2026, SpaceX completed its merger with xAI in what financial analysts described as the largest private merger in history, creating a combined entity, SpaceXAI, valued at $1.25 trillion. The headlines focused on the valuation. The mo

The content of this article does not represent the views, policies, opinions, positions, or official statements of the U.S. Navy, the Department of Defense, the federal government, or any military or government organization. WASHINGTON, When SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission on Jan. 30, 2026, proposing up to one million solar-powered satellites to serve as orbital data centers, it raised a question the nuclear energy industry has been relu

Introduction Organizations are adopting AI at a pace that is genuinely remarkable. In 2023, roughly 30% of employees reported using AI in some professional capacity. By 2025, that number had climbed to 76%. This is not incremental change. It is a rapid, widespread shift in how large numbers of people do their work. But here's the number that deserves as much attention: only 1 in 50 AI investments delivers transformational organizational value. Only 1 in 5 delivers any measura

Introduction EDUCAUSE — the nonprofit that shapes technology strategy for higher education institutions — spent months in early 2026 developing a framework for what AI-enhanced education should actually look like. The resulting framework is built around an acronym: ACTUAL. Agency. Connection. Trust. Uniqueness. Adaptability. Lifelong Learning. What strikes me about this framework is what it prioritizes. It doesn't start with capabilities. It starts with values. It asks not "w

Introduction The 2023 Hollywood strikes were the longest and most consequential labor action the entertainment industry had seen in decades. The Writers Guild of America walked out in May; SAG-AFTRA joined in July. Together, they shut down the production of scripted film and television for 148 days. The core issues were familiar ones — residuals, minimum staffing — but the new and defining issue was AI. What the writers and actors were fighting about, at its core, was whether

Introduction There's a lot of conversation about what's wrong with civic life in America. But there's another story, quieter and less likely to trend: 75 million people who gave their time to something larger than themselves — tutoring students, supporting food banks, staffing health clinics, coaching youth sports. Not because they were paid. Because they believed it mattered. That's what the data shows. What the Numbers Show More than 75.7 million Americans — over 28% of the