Candidates of every political persuasion are knocking themselves out trying to appease angry citizens wanting their lives and livelihoods put before Big Tech.
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Another Monopoly Allowed to Stand
Google avoids accountability again, this time in advertising tech. Why do judges bother to find companies guilty of running a monopoly if they’re unwilling to break them up?
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How You’re Paying for All These Flock Cameras
Money intended for treatment of the opioid crisis and insurance fees to stop auto part theft have instead gone to installing AI-fueled license plate readers.
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Big Tech Crashes Headlong Into American Democracy
The AI oligarchs thought they could stuff data centers down the throats of the American people. They thought wrong.
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Anthropic (Re-)Enlists for War
The AI company is advertising for a ‘National Security Sales’ position, suggesting that its battle with the Defense Department will soon be over.
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The House Always Wins, Even on House-less Kalshi
Kalshi claims its peer-to-peer market structure makes it more fair than traditional sportsbooks. But users often face an opponent even more formidable than a traditional house: Wall Street.
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South Carolina: From Slaves to Bots
The state that was the foremost champion of unpaid human labor now fosters a new-age version of it.
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Private Intelligence Firms Are Selling Dossiers on AI and Data Center Critics
Along with federal law enforcement agencies, private companies are now surveilling opponents of Big Tech.
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Crypto Boosters See a Lack of CLARITY
After spending hundreds of millions on Congress to advance their market structure bill, the CLARITY Act, the crypto industry faces one giant obstacle: Donald Trump’s corruption.