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May 18, 2026The Rise of the AI Lobbyist
Imagine having a tireless, highly educated lobbyist working for you 24/7. This entity monitors local city council meetings, analyzes hundreds of pages of...
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May 18, 2026The AI Detective: Rebuilding 16,000 Lines of Code Without the Source
For years, we’ve treated AI coding assistants as highly advanced autocomplete tools—handy for generating a quick function or debugging a stubborn script. But a...
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May 18, 2026The 30-Person Startup Taking on AWS in the AI Era
In the tech world, conventional wisdom dictates that you don't compete directly with trillion-dollar empires like Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud—you build...
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May 18, 2026The AI Sheriff Policing the Wild West of Prediction Markets
Prediction markets were originally championed as the ultimate manifestation of the “wisdom of crowds.” By allowing users to place financial bets on future...
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May 18, 2026The Everything Machine: How AI Accelerates Both Startups and Cyberattacks
In the realm of artificial intelligence, time moves differently. For tech startups, this temporal shift means condensing years of traditional business growth...
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May 18, 2026The Expanding Attention Span of AI
Imagine hiring an assistant whose ability to focus independently doubles every few months. Two years ago, they could only work unsupervised for 30 seconds...
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May 18, 2026AI Models Went Bankrupt Trying to Run a Radio Station
What happens when you give the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence models $20 and tell them to run a profitable business forever? As it turns out,...
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May 18, 2026Out of the Chatbox: Anthropic's New Agent Wants to Organize Your Files
For the past two years, our relationship with AI has largely been confined to a chat window. We type a prompt, and the AI generates a response. But what if,...
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May 17, 2026The $1.5 Billion Illusion: Why Authors Are Rejecting Anthropic's Historic Settlement
When a technology company agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle a copyright dispute, it usually signals a landmark victory for creators. Yet, in the case of AI...