MTS

Stories, drawn out.

Long-form visual explainers for the topics we keep coming back to — some live here, some in their own corners of the internet.

CURRENT FEATURE·FINANCE·MAY 16, 2026

Congress's portfolio.

Disclosed trades by members of Congress and their families, with the day-of, week-ahead, and 30-day price moves alongside each filing. Placeholder copy until the data freeze lands.

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Previously published

9 TITLES
09
How the smart money reads AI.
Every 13F-HR filing since mid-2023 from 45 curated funds, joined to Form 4 insider flow and adjusted-close prices, with rotation and consensus calls per quarter.
FINANCE
08
The memory squeeze.
A twelve-step walkthrough of why AI memory is the next bottleneck — and what the production stack actually does about it today.
TECH
07
Anatomy of a hack.
Eleven beats — a black-box app, a dependency tree, a maintainer at 11:47pm, a stealer harvest, an attacker session, a 760-org blast radius. Every 2025–2026 marquee breach fits the same chain; a receipts page ties each beat to 19 real named incidents.
TECH
06
Inside the AI grey market.
Anthropic (May 11) and OpenAI (May 12) just declared every unauthorized secondary transfer void. Nine self-paced steps trace 1,000 ex-employee shares through three layers of SPVs — to 47 retail-accredited LPs at a +39% cumulative premium — before the announcement that hollowed the whole structure out.
FINANCE
05
Who pays for the AI buildout.
A single gigawatt-scale AI data center costs ~$50B all-in — $25–50B of Nvidia silicon plus ~$20B of building, power, and cooling. AI bulls call it a 2-year payback; commercial-real-estate pros call it 10. Both numbers are arithmetically correct. The public filings show the upside staying with the AI companies while the downside has been pre-allocated to people who never saw the cap table.
FINANCE
04
Inside the UFO release.
An editorial frontend over war.gov's first UFO/UAP release — 161 declassified records from the FBI, NASA, and the Departments of War and State, geocoded onto a globe and indexed for full-text search.
GEOPOLITICS
03
Search every exhibit.
Semantic search across all 199 trial-admitted exhibits in OpenAI v. Musk — emails, journal pages, contracts, screenshots — rendered in form-factor viewers that match the original document.
LAW
02
Why AI's water problem is overblown.
The viral “500 mL per query” figure conflated per-conversation with per-prompt on stale 2022 hardware. A bottom-up audit lands at ~3 mL — about a sip — and a single hamburger is two million prompts.
TECH
01
On Trial
An interactive walkthrough of the trial — the first MTS subdomained visualization.
LAW