Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want
…the US government. There can only be a few winners on government contracts, though. So we are now treated to the spectacle of watching AI companies scramble. OpenAI is perhaps the funniest…
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BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN
Today on Decoder, I want to lay out an idea that’s been banging around my head for weeks now as we’ve been reporting on AI and having conversations here on…
Climate Change
…Both companies’ carbon footprints have grown as they expand data centers for AI. Google, Amazon, others team to cut climate "superpollutants" [ https://www.axios.com/2026/03/05/google-amazon-climate-superpollutants…
Internet Culture
…The financing is the crucial part — so some “institutional investor” is “essentially buying $50 million worth of stock at the old, defunct-sneaker-company price, and selling it at the new, AI…
Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s “unconstrained” relationship with the truth
…policy document that said we have to rethink the social contract and have AI efficiency stipends from the government. This is a grand promise about how some technology might shape the future…
007 First Light is like a James Bond movie in the best way possible
…To say more would spoil the otherwise enjoyable plot, but the story explores everything from double agents to the rise of AI and corporate control of humanity. Don’t let his recruit…
Companies weaponize TOS against you
…You see all these, frankly, horrifying examples of rich people in companies giving money to various Trump-allied campaign committees or businesses and so forth, and seeing their government investigations dropped, their…
Blue Origin
…Bezos, who killed The Washington Post ’s endorsement of Harris and also owns a space company with billions in government contracts , was among the first major US tech leaders to chime in…
America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here
…The law immediately criminalized distributing NCII, whether in the form of real or AI-generated material, something many states at least partially do already. But its namesake takedown provision is more sweeping…
Ride-sharing
…Hawkins Oct 16, 2025 Elizabeth Lopatto Sep 26, 2025 Will Gavin Newsom let California regulate AI? The California governor, who is already angling for a presidential run , has a stack of AI…