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Over 122 controlled trials across six countries say the same thing: people do not stop working, they do not blow the money, and local economies do not inflate. The standard objections to UBI are running out of empirical runway.
OpinionOver 70 lawsuits, a $1.5 billion settlement, and three contradictory federal rulings have exposed AI copyright law as fundamentally broken. The global rewrite has begun, but no one agrees on what comes next.
OpinionTech companies have discovered that blaming layoffs on AI sends stocks soaring, but the data tells a different story: only 2% of workforce cuts are tied to actual AI implementation. The rest is corporate theater dressed in Silicon Valley’s favorite buzzword.
Artificial Intelligence Opinion Tech & AI PolicyA new NBER study reveals CFOs privately expect AI job cuts nine times higher than 2025’s public figures. The gap between boardroom plans and press releases tells a story of corporate spin, investor incentives, and a workforce kept in the dark.
Artificial Intelligence Opinion Tech & AI PolicyThe federal workforce purge gutted the very agencies now essential to the Iran war. From FBI counterintelligence teams fired days before strikes to Pentagon IT systems facing “extreme risk,” the cost of DOGE is becoming clear.
Opinion US Domestic PoliticsA Los Angeles jury just handed down a social media addiction verdict that finds Meta and YouTube liable for hooking a child by design. With 2,500 lawsuits waiting in the wings, this is Big Tech’s tobacco moment.
Digital Privacy Opinion Psychology & BehaviorTrump proposed the deepest cuts to American science in half a century. Congress blocked most of them. But 25,000 scientists are already gone, 7,800 grants lie in ruins, and the real damage may take a generation to undo.
Opinion US Domestic PoliticsThe body positivity movement was supposed to be a revolution. Then the rich found Ozempic, the Oscars went skeletal, and the whole thing collapsed in a single award season.
OpinionThe three-act playbook of regulatory capture: grow before rules exist, then lobby for rules your competitors cannot afford to follow.
Opinion Tech & AI PolicyAI eliminated entry-level dev jobs and celebrated the savings. The problem: junior work was the training pipeline for senior engineers. When the current generation retires, there may be nobody left who understands the systems.
Artificial Intelligence Opinion Tech & AI PolicyAutocorrect killed spelling. GPS killed navigation. AI intent prediction is coming for the ability to think clearly, and the trade is not as harmless as it looks.
Artificial Intelligence Opinion Psychology & BehaviorSaaS pricing is up 8.7% year over year, features keep bloating, and cancellation is an obstacle course. The subscription model was a genuine innovation. What it became is a mechanism for turning customer dependency into revenue growth.
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