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The Tech Industry Comes Together Against Authoritarianism - Recap of a Truly Wild Week
“This is the wildest news cycle of my life”
 • William Fitzgerald
Don't Be Fooled By Anthropic's Magnanimity
Anthropic is taking a righteous stand against the Pentagon. The AI company and its CEO, Dario Amodei, also got greedy.
 • Alex Shultz
One Protester Got Her City to Divest from Elon Musk — Here's What She Can Teach the Rest of Us
A California retiree gathered signatures, built a coalition, and got her town to cut ties. Here's how she did it.
 • Jacob Ward
Could whistleblowers be the ones to rein in prediction markets?
Polymarket and Kalshi are blowing up. Although they are prime spaces for insider trading or money laundering to take place, they remain largely…
 • Ariella Steinhorn
New Court Filings Show How Google and Snapchat Infiltrated Schools and Bedtime Routines
“Solving kids is a massive opportunity,” reads an internal document from YouTube.
 • Alex Shultz
The AI That Wasn’t There
Companies keep blaming artificial intelligence for layoffs. The real story is messier — and states are starting to notice.
 • Jacob Ward
A poet-mathematician on why she quit OpenAI
Zoë Hitzig is a former research scientist at OpenAI. She decided to quit OpenAI because she realized “the company is just not interested in being…
 • Ariella Steinhorn
Tech CEOs have leverage. Are they willing to lead?
Tech rank-and-file are showing the way
 • Joshua Yurtsever
Marc Benioff’s Quarterly Crises Are Bad for Business
Salesforce workers (and executives!) are pissed off. How many more controversies until Benioff is pressured into an early retirement?
 • Alex Shultz
The Jobs Report Has an AI-Shaped Hole In It
Strip out healthcare and the jobs picture collapses—revealing an economy restructured around AI promises that haven't arrived.
 • Jacob Ward
An indie musician’s song got billions of streams. Now he’s worried about Gen AI music.
Streaming upended the economics of music. Now musicians are grappling with how their sounds and lyrics may be ripped off by AI.
 • Ariella Steinhorn
Jeff Bezos and His Minions Disassembled The Washington Post's Tech Team
A full breakdown of the Post's sloppy layoffs, plus new details about the news outlet's conservative-minded tone-policing.
 • Alex Shultz
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