In plain terms
Plain Read (for new readers): Every AI tool the engine uses to investigate big questions about who runs the world is owned by one of the giant tech companies the engine itself is investigating.
Plain read (for new readers): Every AI tool the engine uses to investigate big questions about who runs the world is owned by one of the giant tech companies the engine itself is investigating. Claude (the AI that writes most of this site) belongs to Anthropic — Amazon-owned, with Google now putting in another $40 billion. Gemini (the AI we used to run the deep-research reports) belongs to Google. ChatGPT belongs to Microsoft. So every time we ask one of these AIs 'who's at the top of the pyramid,' we're asking the suspect to investigate the suspect — using tools the suspect builds, trains, and switches off when they don't like the answer.