In 2026 zero-click search is the norm, not the exception. AI Overviews absorb informational knowledge and serve it for free, restratifying the web rather than impoverishing it evenly. But the vanishing click wasn’t just traffic: it was the doorway to the forums and third places that held us together.
From Hegseth’s ultimatum to Amodei to the Google paradox: an investigation into how AI became the new nuclear capability. Who signs with the Pentagon, who refuses and gets banned, who invests in both — and why no contract answers the question: who is responsible when the algorithm is wrong?
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