Have you ever wondered who owns a Mickey Mouse image generated by AI? 🖱️ Today’s AI breakthroughs are creating “new” versions of iconic characters with a simple text prompt—but our copyright system wasn’t built for machines that create. When an AI replicates Mickey Mouse,

🚨 Plot twist: TikTok just showed how we can fix AI misinformation While lawmakers debate heavy-handed mandates, TikTok quietly rolled out C2PA content authentication—no laws required. The results? Eye-opening. 👁️ Here's what a decade in tech policy taught me: Private

What if restricting data centers to “save energy” is the wrong answer to our energy challenges? Data centers used just 1–1.3% of global electricity in 2022—and yes, that could double by 2026 as AI transforms healthcare, education and more. Yet history shows that abundance, not

⏰ “More hours = better results?” Think again. What if the secret to breakthrough performance isn’t pushing harder—but stopping smarter? We've seen the same trap: we glorify marathon workdays and treat recovery like weakness. Here’s what the research (and Olympic coaches) teach

As we face growing concerns about these facilities' energy consumption, we stand at a pivotal crossroads: do we constrain the digital infrastructure powering innovation, or do we embrace an abundance mindset toward energy production? carlszabo.substack.com/p/powering-our…

Team Trump has reached 11 MILLION followers on TikTok👏

Want to find better movies? This can help 🎬 Did you know the average American spends 7.4 minutes (nearly 50 hours a year) scrolling before hitting “Play”? With 600 million+ collective hours wasted annually on decision paralysis, our streaming “problem” is real—and fixable.

What if your smartphone could become a “digital co-parent” that grows with your child? Across America, parents are losing the screen-time war—not for lack of effort, but because today’s parental controls are fragmented, outdated, and routinely outsmarted by tech-savvy kids.

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just signed a HUGE DEAL – the Executive Order that SAVES TIKTOK & protects Americans' data. 🇺🇸💥 We're BACK - and BETTER than ever 📲 TikTok.com/@Whitehouse

What if the toughest competitor in your next meeting is actually your greatest coach? We’ve been taught to avoid friction, chase comfort, and treat competition as a zero-sum game. Yet the NFL’s brutal training camps reveal a different truth: iron sharpens iron. In the NFL: •

Glad to be back on TikTok thanks to President Trump! Follow along over on TikTok for more updates from the White House, and maybe even some sombrero memes

What if the secret to America’s next economic frontier isn’t in Silicon Valley, but hundreds of millions of miles above us? For decades, space exploration felt like an Apollo-era daydream—until permissionless innovation flipped the script. When SpaceX launched astronauts in

It's Entrepreneurs not government that are taking us to Mars carlszabo.substack.com/p/cosmic-capit…

What if a Netflix show about K-Pop demon hunters could teach us everything we need to know about innovation? Last week, my whole family—from “Seinfeld”-loving parents to TikTok-native kids—bonded over the wildly niche series “KPop Demon Hunters.” It wasn’t just Saturday night

It’s GOLDEN!! K-Pop Demon Hunters has a lesson for us all carlszabo.substack.com/p/the-unexpect…

Last week in Indianapolis, we joined the Skilled Careers Coalition, SkillsUSA and Ivy Tech for The Toolbelt Generation — bringing together Indiana leaders, students, and TikTok creators to explore how Gen Z is discovering careers in the skilled trades through TikTok. 🔨

Ever tried crafting a killer LinkedIn post…with zero context? Without clear direction, even the sharpest writers and AI tools hit a wall. Here’s what I’ve learned when collaborating on thought leadership: • Define the Voice: Share writing samples or style guides. • Set the

This is the key to health and it's not what you think. Supplements are, as described, supplemental, but it's in the hard work that products results. Read the discussion... carlszabo.substack.com/p/the-suppleme…