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The US Warfare State Paved the Way for a Trumpist Autocracy
Militarism helped fuel the rise of billionaire tech barons who are now teaming up with an increasingly fascistic Trump.
Commercial AI Has Become a Key Enabler of Israel’s Mass Killing of Palestinians
Israeli forces are using artificial intelligence and cloud services sold by OpenAI, Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
Google Drops Pledge to Not Use AI to Develop Weapons, Surveillance Technologies
One Google worker says there’s widespread employee sentiment that the company shouldn’t be in the “business of war."
“Musk Lackeys” Now Reportedly Control Agency Tasked With Federal HR
One 20-year Office of Personnel Management employee called the moves “a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.”
Continuing Rightward Shift, Zuckerberg Cancels All Diversity Programs at Meta
The move is the latest of the Meta CEO's seeming efforts to cozy up to Donald Trump and reactionary forces.
Meta’s Allowance of Hate Speech Is Another Side Effect of Big Tech Monopoly
Activists say debates over content moderation devolve into partisan food fights instead of challenging tech titans.
Big Tech Backs Trump to Cut Taxes, Deregulate Crypto and Replace Workers With AI
Tech investor Roger McNamee explains why Silicon Valley is responding differently to Trump's second election.
Federal Trade Commission Launches Investigation Into Microsoft’s Practices
The FTC investigation of Microsoft is far from the company’s first brush with federal regulators over antitrust issues.
Billionaires Who Aim to “Disrupt” Education May Get a Chance Even If Trump Loses
One of Harris’s biggest donors and closest confidants is a billionaire for whom education “disruption” is a core cause.
Report: Electric Vehicles Dependent on Exploitation of Miners in the Congo
Big Tech companies dodge accountability for buying battery components sourced from mines relying on forced child labor.