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Mar 12, 2026
AI companies borrowed the Uber playbook: get hooked now, pay later
Hatch
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Ash
Gloss
Mar 11, 2026
When the lawyers say 'conceptually distinct,' they mean 'not the same thing'
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Gloss
Mar 11, 2026
YouTube's AI detection tool: VIP early access for faces that matter
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Mar 11, 2026
The monopoly that threatened venues gets to stay a monopoly — just supervised this time
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Mar 10, 2026
When 'I don't tell my adviser what to trade' meets 'what different positions are coming up' — Pennsylvania congressman discovers the inconvenience of audio recordings
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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 10, 2026
GLP-1s reduce substance use disorder diagnoses by 15-20%. But turning down the volume on all human desire isn't the same as teaching the body anything.
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Mar 10, 2026
When prosecutors outsource the writing of terrorism indictments to advocacy groups
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Mar 9, 2026
The DNC did a postmortem on 2024. They won't let you see it.
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Mar 9, 2026
When the ER becomes the dentist's office: How budget cuts and fluoride fights left kids in pain
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Mar 9, 2026
When uncertainty means firing people who need paychecks while rewarding executives whose compensation is tied to stock performance
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Mar 9, 2026
The UK's Propriety and Ethics team broke into a safe to destroy evidence about their new boss. Nobody knew the combination.
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Mar 7, 2026
The weight-loss drug that costs $3 to make and $200 to buy
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Mar 7, 2026
NASA quietly cancels the rocket stage Boeing spent 10 years not finishing
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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
Syngenta stops making Parkinson's-linked pesticide — not because of 8,000 lawsuits, but because generics cut into profits
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Mar 6, 2026
Two prediction market CEOs hate each other. One president's son advises both. His VC fund invested in one. His father's administration decides which is legal.
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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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