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How the Tech World Turned Evil

Timothy Noah The New Republic
Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they’re greedy monopolists who’d sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way—and they have to be stopped.

Claude Mythos Is Everyone’s Problem

Matteo Wong The Atlantic
Mythos Preview appears to represent not an incremental change but the beginning of a paradigm shift. According to Anthropic, the bot has been able to find thousands of software bugs that had gone undetected, sometimes for decades.

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The 2026 Farm Bill and Big Tech

Anthony Pahnke Fortune
The current Farm Bill that is now meandering through Congress — entitled The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 — reveals some potentially troubling inclusions worth digging into.
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