Big Tech

Solo Act
The Single English County Saying No to Palantir
The UK government is facing calls to cancel a sprawling health care contract with Palantir. The region of Greater Manchester insists it can do a better job itself.
Joel Khalili and Matt Burgess

Uncanny Valley
Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto Is 6,500 Words—and Barely Says Anything
Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger, and Andy Greenberg

Uncanny Valley
ICE’s DNA Collection Increases, SpaceX’s Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, and the AI Backlash Grows
Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger, and Molly Taft

Uncanny Valley
Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Is Missing Some Key Names: OpenAI and Anthropic
Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger

Cash on Delivery
Ebay Has to Pay $55.7 Million in Settlement for Its Unhinged Harassment Campaign
Lauren Goode

Uncanny Valley
China-US AI Race Escalates, OpenAI Models Break Free, and Why You Should Check Your Car Alarm
Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger

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The Big Interview
‘It’s a Modern-Day Draft’: Why Stanford Students Walked Out on Sundar Pichai’s Commencement Speech
Katie Drummond


Chat Control’s Back
A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway
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