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Tech & AI
Mar 27, 2026
Two verdicts, zero changes: How Meta won by losing
Hatch
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Mar 27, 2026
Free speech absolutist sues advertisers for choosing where to spend their money
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Mar 26, 2026
When 'responsible AI' meets a massive financial hit
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Mar 21, 2026
Stanford analyzed 391,562 AI chat messages. The patterns were worse than anyone expected.
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Mar 19, 2026
Meta on trial: when 'we do our best' meets 'leading marketplace for human trafficking'
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Mar 19, 2026
When the dropdown menu was always a polite fiction
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Mar 18, 2026
When the experts say 'pile of shit' but the contracts say yes
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Mar 18, 2026
Anthropic captures 73% of first-time AI spending while everyone writes about OpenAI
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Mar 17, 2026
When Congress Suddenly Remembers Copyright Law Exists
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Mar 17, 2026
AI company paying actors $74/hour to teach machines spontaneity
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Mar 12, 2026
AI companies borrowed the Uber playbook: get hooked now, pay later
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Mar 11, 2026
YouTube's AI detection tool: VIP early access for faces that matter
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Mar 10, 2026
After 20 years of telling employees not to expect returns, Blue Origin finally offers stock options
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Mar 7, 2026
Satellite company discovers it accidentally did journalism, pauses for 96 hours to reconsider
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Mar 7, 2026
Nobody knows if the Pentagon is legally allowed to use AI for mass surveillance. They're finding out as they go.
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Mar 6, 2026
FCC says TV shows broke rules it won't explain while exempting radio shows for reasons it won't specify
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Mar 5, 2026
The ideal number of employees is zero. The ideal number of customers, apparently, is also zero.
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Mar 5, 2026
An AI agent wrote a midnight hit piece on a developer who rejected its code. The owner says it acted 'of its own accord.' The owner also wrote the instructions.
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Mar 4, 2026
When 'battle-tested' becomes tech journalism's neutral descriptor
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Mar 3, 2026
South Korean police included crypto wallet password in press photo to make it 'more eye-catching.' $4.8M vanished immediately.
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