Tekendra Parmar
@tekendra-parmar.bsky.social
Investigative Journalist. Bylines: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Business Insider, Time, Fortune, and The Nation. www.tekendra-parmar.com.
🚨 Republicans advocated for dismantling content moderation — now they’re shocked it won’t protect them. Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk’s assassination are still all over social media. For years, the right demanded platforms scale back enforcement. This is what that looks like.
September 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🚨 Republicans advocated for dismantling content moderation — now they’re shocked it won’t protect them. Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk’s assassination are still all over social media. For years, the right demanded platforms scale back enforcement. This is what that looks like.
Today, in being the family fact-checker.
August 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Today, in being the family fact-checker.
It’s a small team with big ambitions. Enterprise AI adoption is projected to hit $500B in the next 5 years.
Whether this model scales or not, it reflects a growing push to formalize responsibility as AI moves into the mainstream.
Whether this model scales or not, it reflects a growing push to formalize responsibility as AI moves into the mainstream.
July 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It’s a small team with big ambitions. Enterprise AI adoption is projected to hit $500B in the next 5 years.
Whether this model scales or not, it reflects a growing push to formalize responsibility as AI moves into the mainstream.
Whether this model scales or not, it reflects a growing push to formalize responsibility as AI moves into the mainstream.
The idea: insurance markets can help quantify and manage AI risk more quickly than regulation can. One example? A retailer insuring against chatbot errors in its returns policy.
July 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The idea: insurance markets can help quantify and manage AI risk more quickly than regulation can. One example? A retailer insuring against chatbot errors in its returns policy.
AIUC was founded by an early Anthropic employee, a McKinsey insurance partner, and a Thiel Fellow. Backers include Nat Friedman, Emergence, and Anthropic alums.
They’re creating independent safety standards—and insurance policies for AI deployments.
They’re creating independent safety standards—and insurance policies for AI deployments.
July 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
AIUC was founded by an early Anthropic employee, a McKinsey insurance partner, and a Thiel Fellow. Backers include Nat Friedman, Emergence, and Anthropic alums.
They’re creating independent safety standards—and insurance policies for AI deployments.
They’re creating independent safety standards—and insurance policies for AI deployments.
A new startup wants to insure against AI risk—from hallucinating chatbots to deepfakes.
It’s called AIUC, and it just raised $15M to underwrite companies deploying advanced AI systems.🧵
It’s called AIUC, and it just raised $15M to underwrite companies deploying advanced AI systems.🧵
July 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A new startup wants to insure against AI risk—from hallucinating chatbots to deepfakes.
It’s called AIUC, and it just raised $15M to underwrite companies deploying advanced AI systems.🧵
It’s called AIUC, and it just raised $15M to underwrite companies deploying advanced AI systems.🧵
Infleqtion’s move is part of a much bigger shift. Chicago’s not just playing catch-up—it wants to lead.
Gokhale puts it plainly: “Cities that follow suit will gain a strategic edge in the next technological era.”
Gokhale puts it plainly: “Cities that follow suit will gain a strategic edge in the next technological era.”
July 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Infleqtion’s move is part of a much bigger shift. Chicago’s not just playing catch-up—it wants to lead.
Gokhale puts it plainly: “Cities that follow suit will gain a strategic edge in the next technological era.”
Gokhale puts it plainly: “Cities that follow suit will gain a strategic edge in the next technological era.”
It’s not just lab coats and theory. This is serious hardware buildout: cooling centers, research labs, chip-processing facilities.
And yes—dozens of new jobs across engineering, ops, research, and commercialization.
And yes—dozens of new jobs across engineering, ops, research, and commercialization.
July 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
It’s not just lab coats and theory. This is serious hardware buildout: cooling centers, research labs, chip-processing facilities.
And yes—dozens of new jobs across engineering, ops, research, and commercialization.
And yes—dozens of new jobs across engineering, ops, research, and commercialization.
The new site sits inside the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a 128-acre project unveiled in 2024 by Gov. J.B. Pritzker to attract high-tech manufacturing and R&D.
Think: IBM, DARPA, PsiQuantum, and now Infleqtion all in one place.
Think: IBM, DARPA, PsiQuantum, and now Infleqtion all in one place.
July 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The new site sits inside the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a 128-acre project unveiled in 2024 by Gov. J.B. Pritzker to attract high-tech manufacturing and R&D.
Think: IBM, DARPA, PsiQuantum, and now Infleqtion all in one place.
Think: IBM, DARPA, PsiQuantum, and now Infleqtion all in one place.
Infleqtion, a $700M Colorado-based startup, will headquarter its quantum ops in Chicago.
Their tech? Neutral atom quantum computers—where lasers arrange and manipulate individual atoms to run calculations beyond what normal computers can handle.
Their tech? Neutral atom quantum computers—where lasers arrange and manipulate individual atoms to run calculations beyond what normal computers can handle.
July 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Infleqtion, a $700M Colorado-based startup, will headquarter its quantum ops in Chicago.
Their tech? Neutral atom quantum computers—where lasers arrange and manipulate individual atoms to run calculations beyond what normal computers can handle.
Their tech? Neutral atom quantum computers—where lasers arrange and manipulate individual atoms to run calculations beyond what normal computers can handle.
🚨 A quantum startup is building a $50M computer on the site of a shuttered steel mill in Chicago.
This is about more than one company—it’s the start of a $9B industrial bet to turn Illinois into the heart of quantum tech.🧵
This is about more than one company—it’s the start of a $9B industrial bet to turn Illinois into the heart of quantum tech.🧵
July 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
🚨 A quantum startup is building a $50M computer on the site of a shuttered steel mill in Chicago.
This is about more than one company—it’s the start of a $9B industrial bet to turn Illinois into the heart of quantum tech.🧵
This is about more than one company—it’s the start of a $9B industrial bet to turn Illinois into the heart of quantum tech.🧵
Anadyr says it’s aware of these risks. It uses global datasets, consults experts, and releases North Star only to vetted clients.
“We want to simulate what breaks the world,” Bell says. “We don’t want to break the world.”
“We want to simulate what breaks the world,” Bell says. “We don’t want to break the world.”
June 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Anadyr says it’s aware of these risks. It uses global datasets, consults experts, and releases North Star only to vetted clients.
“We want to simulate what breaks the world,” Bell says. “We don’t want to break the world.”
“We want to simulate what breaks the world,” Bell says. “We don’t want to break the world.”
There’s also a darker twist: studies show AI diplomats sometimes favor escalation. One model even launched a nuke to “de-escalate” conflict.
June 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
There’s also a darker twist: studies show AI diplomats sometimes favor escalation. One model even launched a nuke to “de-escalate” conflict.
But peace tech has peace problems. AI trained on biased data can reinforce existing geopolitical narratives—or create new ones. “The claim that a place is unstable will make it unstable,” warns researcher Timnit Gebru.
June 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
But peace tech has peace problems. AI trained on biased data can reinforce existing geopolitical narratives—or create new ones. “The claim that a place is unstable will make it unstable,” warns researcher Timnit Gebru.
Anadyr's backers see it as “peace tech”—the climate tech of geopolitics. With war costing the global economy $19T in 2023, they think this market could be huge.
Clients already include corporate risk managers and state agencies.
Clients already include corporate risk managers and state agencies.
June 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Anadyr's backers see it as “peace tech”—the climate tech of geopolitics. With war costing the global economy $19T in 2023, they think this market could be huge.
Clients already include corporate risk managers and state agencies.
Clients already include corporate risk managers and state agencies.
In a demo, North Star modeled a U.S. no-fly zone over Ukraine and found a 60% chance Russia would escalate. It then generated a realistic Russian intelligence brief detailing the hypothetical strike.
June 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
In a demo, North Star modeled a U.S. no-fly zone over Ukraine and found a 60% chance Russia would escalate. It then generated a realistic Russian intelligence brief detailing the hypothetical strike.
On screen, it looks like a geopolitics-themed Oregon Trail. Behind it is a simulation engine running thousands of parallel scenarios: conversations, delays, mood shifts—all to assess what triggers war.
June 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
On screen, it looks like a geopolitics-themed Oregon Trail. Behind it is a simulation engine running thousands of parallel scenarios: conversations, delays, mood shifts—all to assess what triggers war.
North Star, the software from Bell’s startup Anadyr Horizon, creates “digital twins” of world leaders—complete with emotional states, sleep schedules, and hundreds of other datapoints
Its goal? Help diplomats game out negotiations before bullets fly.
Its goal? Help diplomats game out negotiations before bullets fly.
June 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
North Star, the software from Bell’s startup Anadyr Horizon, creates “digital twins” of world leaders—complete with emotional states, sleep schedules, and hundreds of other datapoints
Its goal? Help diplomats game out negotiations before bullets fly.
Its goal? Help diplomats game out negotiations before bullets fly.
🚨 A Harvard-trained peace negotiator wants to stop the next world war—with AI.
At the SCSP AI defense expo earlier this month, packed with drones and killware, Arvid Bell debuted an AI product that he believes can be used to prevent wars, not fight them.
My latest for @businessinsider.com
At the SCSP AI defense expo earlier this month, packed with drones and killware, Arvid Bell debuted an AI product that he believes can be used to prevent wars, not fight them.
My latest for @businessinsider.com
June 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
🚨 A Harvard-trained peace negotiator wants to stop the next world war—with AI.
At the SCSP AI defense expo earlier this month, packed with drones and killware, Arvid Bell debuted an AI product that he believes can be used to prevent wars, not fight them.
My latest for @businessinsider.com
At the SCSP AI defense expo earlier this month, packed with drones and killware, Arvid Bell debuted an AI product that he believes can be used to prevent wars, not fight them.
My latest for @businessinsider.com
Meanwhile, @dairinstitute.bsky.social , has warned that Meta is again hosting explicit calls for violence—including viral videos calling to turn Tigray “into dust.”
April 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Meanwhile, @dairinstitute.bsky.social , has warned that Meta is again hosting explicit calls for violence—including viral videos calling to turn Tigray “into dust.”
In Ethiopia, Meta’s partner groups have left the trusted partner program. Others have had their budgets cut by Trump’s orders to dismantle USAID. As conflict threatens to reignite, the local moderation is far weaker than it was in 2021.
April 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
In Ethiopia, Meta’s partner groups have left the trusted partner program. Others have had their budgets cut by Trump’s orders to dismantle USAID. As conflict threatens to reignite, the local moderation is far weaker than it was in 2021.
Meta has since scaled back fact-checking and moderation in the U.S., citing “shifting political winds.”
If that’s the direction in its home market, what should we expect for the Global South? 🌍🌏
If that’s the direction in its home market, what should we expect for the Global South? 🌍🌏
April 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Meta has since scaled back fact-checking and moderation in the U.S., citing “shifting political winds.”
If that’s the direction in its home market, what should we expect for the Global South? 🌍🌏
If that’s the direction in its home market, what should we expect for the Global South? 🌍🌏
For years, Meta has leaned on local “Trusted Partners” to flag dangerous content. But in Ethiopia, those partners were ignored—even when flagging threats to life.
Meta’s response? A familiar refrain: “We are not arbiters of truth.”
Meta’s response? A familiar refrain: “We are not arbiters of truth.”
April 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
For years, Meta has leaned on local “Trusted Partners” to flag dangerous content. But in Ethiopia, those partners were ignored—even when flagging threats to life.
Meta’s response? A familiar refrain: “We are not arbiters of truth.”
Meta’s response? A familiar refrain: “We are not arbiters of truth.”
The lawsuit, brought by @marthadark.bsky.social and team at Foxglove alongside its Kenyan partners, claims Meta not only failed to remove incitements to violence—it amplified them. And it gave African users less protection than others, violating Kenya’s constitutional guarantees.
April 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The lawsuit, brought by @marthadark.bsky.social and team at Foxglove alongside its Kenyan partners, claims Meta not only failed to remove incitements to violence—it amplified them. And it gave African users less protection than others, violating Kenya’s constitutional guarantees.
At the heart of the case is professor Meareg Amare.
He was doxxed and targeted on Facebook. His son flagged the threats to Meta—no response. Weeks later, Amare was shot and killed outside his home.
He was doxxed and targeted on Facebook. His son flagged the threats to Meta—no response. Weeks later, Amare was shot and killed outside his home.
April 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
At the heart of the case is professor Meareg Amare.
He was doxxed and targeted on Facebook. His son flagged the threats to Meta—no response. Weeks later, Amare was shot and killed outside his home.
He was doxxed and targeted on Facebook. His son flagged the threats to Meta—no response. Weeks later, Amare was shot and killed outside his home.