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How Hollywood used the digital transition against workers
The challenge facing striking workers goes much deeper than streaming and AI
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Google wants to take over the web
Its new plan for search shows how AI hype hides the real threat of increased corporate power
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Roundup: What's in the Tesla Files?
Read to the end for a funny comic on AI and work
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Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back
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Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.
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Don't listen to the 'godfather of AI'
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Twitter's Moment of Truth Has Arrived
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China hawks are coming for Shein
The TikTok playbook is being used against the fast fashion retailer to serve corporate interests
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Roundup: Sam Altman's friendly DC trip and Apple's troubled headset
Read to the end for a fun poll on tech "innovation"
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Elon Musk thinks he's invincible
The media created a monster we might not be able to stop
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Roundup: A new Twitter CEO rises and the metaverse falls
Read to the end for a fun Jeopardy quiz
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Roundup: Woz jokes about executing founders
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Don't listen to the 'godfather of AI'
Geoffrey Hinton is using fantasies to distract us from the real harms of AI
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The writer's strike is all about tech
From streaming to AI, writers want to ensure studios can’t keep using new tech against them
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