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Oracle Laid Off 21,000 People to Borrow $45 Billion for AI Infrastructure
The workers who got laid off paid for the data centers.
Read full commentary →Meta's Employee Surveillance System Leaked Private Conversations After Promising Tight Controls
They're spying on people to teach AI to replace them.
Read full commentary →Volunteers Brought Fish Back to a Dead Stream. Now They Face Two Years in Jail.
The Agency watched the stream die for decades, then showed up to investigate the cleanup.
Read full commentary →The Buzz
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Same money, same opacity, different adjective—the distinction is whose amendment passes.