Big Tech

Chat Control’s Back
A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway
Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, emails, and social media messages via the “Chat Control” bill to find child abuse material online.
Isabella Ward



Under Fire
3 Amazon Workers Say They’re Under Investigation for Speaking Out About Data Centers
Paresh Dave

Snack Time
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’
Lauren Goode and Paresh Dave

Spec Ops
Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Hallucinations
A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews
Fernanda González


Change of Heart
‘Hands Off Our NHS’: Anti-Palantir Protests Break Out in UK Over Deal With National Health Service
Joel Khalili
Detained
A Meta Employee Who Just Lost Their Job Was Detained by Immigration Agents
Lauren Goode, Paresh Dave, and Louise Matsakis

Losing Face
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron


Public Comments
Amazon Employees Show Up to City Council Meetings to Demand Limits on Data Centers
Paresh Dave

Zucker Punched
‘We’re Just Getting the Crumbs Here’: Contractors Protest Layoffs at Meta’s European Headquarters
Joel Khalili

Net Benefit
Amazon Thinks the Future of Data Centers Depends on a Technical Problem It Just Solved
Lauren Goode

Uncanny Valley
Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates
Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger

Full Disclosure
SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers
Paresh Dave and Maxwell Zeff