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Five takeaways from an unhinged AI discourse
What's behind the feverish AI discourse? Who thinks "AI is fake"? Is "the left" wrong to dismiss AI? Is that even what's happening? What's really going…
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Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties
The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center…
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How Jeff Bezos and Amazon became instruments of authoritarianism
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The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)
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The AI jobs crisis is here, now
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The tech oligarchs and their AI are taking over. Let's fight back.
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On the smokescreen of AGI, and fighting for workers in the age of Trump and the tech oligarchy
Plus, protestors demand Amazon ditch its ICE contracts on the national day of protest.
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The lines have been drawn
Silicon Valley must decide which side it's on
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What Trump really wants with AI
Trump's AI agenda is often described as a push for deregulation; an effort to cut red tape so AI companies can innovate. In truth, it's a big government…
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Abolish the senses
How the post-truth politics of Donald Trump and Elon Musk engineered the brutal, unpopular ICE occupation -- and what the resistance is actually about.
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One bleak possible future for life after the AI bubble bursts
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The best books, films and TV about AI + tech in 2025
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