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The Dead Economy Theory: AI's Trillion-Dollar Bet Against Its Own Customers

The AI industry's valuations only make sense if the product is large-scale labor replacement. OpenAI, Anthropic, and their peers have absorbed hundreds of billi

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tech-culture

The Randoseru: How a Dutch Military Pack Became Japan's Iconic School Bag

Japan's randoseru—the boxy, leather-clad backpack worn by every elementary schoolchild for six straight years—traces its lineage to a Dutch military rucksack ca

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aitech-culture

The Telltale Signatures of LLM-Generated Writing and Web Design

A blogger documents recurring stylistic fingerprints that betray LLM-assisted output across both prose and web design. In writing, the giveaways go well beyond

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UC Faculty Push to Restore SAT for STEM as Math Readiness Craters

More than 600 University of California faculty, led by Berkeley mathematicians, are demanding the system reinstate SAT or ACT requirements for STEM applicants b

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VW breaks Home Assistant integration by mandating client assertion on login

Volkswagen has rolled out a change to its identity service that now requires a client assertion during authentication, breaking the popular homeassistant-volksw

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Why scientific writing feels miserable — and the structural fix that helps

A researcher recounts dreading the writing stage of science until discovering that good prose follows learnable structural rules rather than innate talent. The

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Apple and Google Now Edit Your Push Notifications Before You See Them

Push notifications have always been intermediated. Every alert sent to an iPhone or Android device routes through Apple Push Notification Service or Firebase Cl

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Box's Aaron Levie: CEOs Have 'AI Psychosis' Because They're Too Far From Real Work

Box CEO Aaron Levie has coined the term 'AI psychosis' to describe a pattern he sees among tech executives: they prototype something with AI, get impressed, and

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Canada Picks Saab GlobalEye Over Boeing E-7 in Pivot from US Defense Suppliers

Canada will buy Saab's GlobalEye early warning aircraft instead of Boeing's troubled E-7 Wedgetail, marking a deliberate move away from US defense procurement.

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Cloudflare launches Flagship, a feature flag service for Workers

Cloudflare has introduced Flagship, a feature flag platform that lets developers toggle functionality in production without redeploying. Flags are evaluated ins

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aitech-culture

Coding agents finally give Anthropic and OpenAI a business model that pays

Simon Willison argues that the recent surge in enterprise AI spending isn't a sign of waste — it's the long-awaited product-market fit for OpenAI and Anthropic.

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DuckDuckGo's AI-free search jumps 28% as users revolt against Google AI Mode

Traffic to noai.duckduckgo.com climbed an average of 22.7% week-over-week between May 20 and May 25, peaking at 27.7% on May 24. The DuckDuckGo mobile app saw U

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