March 2025

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer Amazon would like the world — and its investors — to know it’s trying a few new things with generative AI. “We’ve got about 1,000 different generative AI applications we’ve either built or are in the process of building right now,” said CEO Andy Jassy on an earnings call in February. Most of these

Photo: Andrzej Iwanczuk/NurPhoto via Getty Images Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth isn’t just accidentally group chatting with a magazine editor about upcoming airstrikes, he’s bringing his family members to work, too. The scandal-plagued self-proclaimed “war fighter” has brought his wife, former Fox & Friends producer Jennifer Rauchet Hegseth, to at least two meetings with foreign

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images With an unelected billionaire taking a wrecking ball to the administrative state and the president’s Cabinet giving away national secrets, it can be easy to forget that the president is treating the crypto industry like an open-source ATM. You may remember that Donald Trump launched a novelty cryptocurrency in January

Photo: Graeme Sloan/The Washington Post/Getty Images Both parties have plenty of reasons to look forward to next year’s midterm elections. Republicans can test out the MAGA hypothesis that Donald Trump is building a new majority coalition that will last for decades. Democrats will rely on the more plausible historical precedent that the president’s party almost