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Aug 29, 2026
The Swatter — August 24–28, 2026
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Aug 29, 2026
Top Takes of the Week — August 24–28, 2026
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Aug 28, 2026
EPA Removes Emissions Monitoring for Data Center Power Plants That 'Help Protect the Environment'
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Aug 28, 2026
Anthropic Announces Standard for AI-Controlled Lab Equipment, Calls It 'Streamlining Setup'
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Aug 28, 2026
Nvidia Sells You the Chips, Lends You the Money, and Owns Part of Your Company
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Aug 28, 2026
Snails Make Five Different Products From Two Ingredients While We Build Separate Factories for Each
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Aug 28, 2026
Meta's Solution to Recording Strangers Without Consent: Let the Person Doing the Recording Choose Whether to Stop
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Aug 27, 2026
Meta Pays 1% of Revenue After Hiding Teen Harm Research, Gets to Decide If Stronger Protections Ever Happen
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Aug 27, 2026
$100K Club Built Its Kitchen on Temporary Visas, Shocked When Workers Had to Leave
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Aug 27, 2026
The World Record Whale Made of Plastic Waste Lives in New Mexico Now
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Aug 27, 2026
The Louvre Lends What It Borrowed: Islamic Art Comes to America on an Eighteen-Month Visa
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Aug 26, 2026
HHS Secretary Defends His Vaccine Record While Two Die of Measles in Pennsylvania
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Aug 26, 2026
Amazon's 'Artificial Artificial Intelligence' Platform Shuts Down After AI Learns to Replace the Humans Who Were Faking It
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Aug 26, 2026
Jeffries Says He Hasn't Decided on Impeachment After Saying Exactly What He'll Do
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Aug 26, 2026
They Lost 100 Marmots to Climate Collapse, So They Made a Meme Coin and a Chunkiness Bracket
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Aug 26, 2026
Grocers Threaten to Sue City's Food Access Program While Asking for Their Own Subsidies
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Aug 25, 2026
Digital Natives Were Supposed to Thrive in the AI Economy. They're Being Locked Out First.
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Aug 25, 2026
Nvidia CEO Scolded Partner for AI Server Smuggling While Nvidia's Own Senior Manager Allegedly Ran the Operation
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Aug 25, 2026
Saudi Arabia Diversifies From Oil With $7 Billion Dragon Ball Theme Park — Discovered Over Shared Anime Enthusiasm
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Aug 25, 2026
Four Thousand Years of Mazes, Zero Consistent Signage on Whether You're Supposed to Escape
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