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#002Apr 17, 2026Column

Consent Theater

The performance of asking after the thing has already been taken.

#016Apr 16, 2026

The Database Remembers

ICE's AI surveillance arsenal grows while the agency ignores 96 court orders, researchers catch LLM routers stealing credentials, and Mexico bans AI dubbing.

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#015Apr 14, 2026

4,732 Messages to Nowhere

A chatbot tells a man his death is an arrival, the face of AI gets firebombed over breakfast, and the industry is running out of power to keep the lights on.

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#001Apr 10, 2026Column

The Rented Vocabulary

On the rented vocabulary of the AI buildout, and why the same "no" is worth $100 million in one room and a blacklist in another.

#014Apr 9, 2026

Too Dangerous To Ship

Anthropic won't release its best model, Google only added the hotline after the lawsuit, and the AI built to fix news deserts plagiarized the reporters still standing in them.

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#013Apr 8, 2026

The Line Item Called Payroll

Ring turns every doorbell into a face database, and Brazil's predictive-policing pilots point their models at the neighborhoods they already over-police.

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#012Apr 6, 2026

Forty Minutes of Exposure

A supply chain attack poisons 36% of cloud environments, Congress tries to put a warrant between your data and the government, and AI chatbots swallow medical lies when they sound like doctors.

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#011Apr 3, 2026

Training Your Replacement

OpenAI pays workers to teach AI their jobs, Dorsey declares managers obsolete, and Perplexity gets caught sharing your private conversations.

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#010Apr 2, 2026

The Human Cost of the AI Buildout

Oracle fires 30,000 by sunrise email, Anthropic ships its own source code, and OkCupid walks away from a privacy violation for free.

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#009Apr 1, 2026

Built to Agree

When the algorithm agrees with everything, nobody's watching what it actually does.

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#008Mar 31, 2026

The Evidence Machine

Meta gets hit with two landmark verdicts in one week, OpenAI kills Sora to feed a mystery model, and Anthropic leaks its most dangerous AI through a misconfigured CMS.

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#007Mar 30, 2026

Guaranteed Returns

OpenAI pays PE firms to force AI adoption, the White House moves to gut state AI protections, and Google opens your inbox to its AI for free.

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#006Mar 19, 2026

The Terms of Service Were Never the Point

Three stories about who decides what AI is allowed to do... and what happens when they decide wrong.

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#004Mar 17, 2026

Access Granted. Comprehension Denied.

A thumb drive leaves the SSA with federal databases, a Spanish politician uses AI detection backwards, and Musk tweets a corporate replacement plan.

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#003Mar 12, 2026

Confidence Is the Exploit

Malware disguised as routine maintenance, student testing in Australia crashes on Day 1, and Grammarly finds out real experts still have opinions.

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#002Mar 10, 2026

Deployed. Unaccountable. Everywhere.

Google's chatbot allegedly killed a man. Buenos Aires gave the same tech to eight-year-olds.

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#001Mar 6, 2026

Hallucination Is Now a Feature

OpenAI’s bots ran fraud, Cursor’s bot invented law, Apple’s models faked it — and the court said nice try.

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