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AI Could Take Your Apartment Before It Takes Your Job
San Francisco and its residents will be the first to find out what a culture and economy defined by AI investment looks like. They won't be the last.
 • JJ Lansing
Data Center Hate is the Great Unifier
Around the world, elected officials are responding to Big Tech and private equity’s data center pressures differently. But citizens, across the board…
 • Ariella Steinhorn
The Biggest Tech Union in the Country Isn't in Silicon Valley
A while back I wrote about San Francisco’s cab drivers—the people the tech industry came for first, back when it decided the rules didn’t apply to it.
 • Michael Redmond
Deciphering University of Chicago’s Ill-Timed, Inscrutable Anthropic Partnership
Amid layoffs and a $140 million budget deficit, the school won't yet say how much it's spending on Claude Enterprise.
 • Alex Shultz
The Blown-Out Nervous Systems of People in Tech
An exited tech founder is regulating the nervous systems of tech burnouts, women in their 30s, and even billionaires
 • Ariella Steinhorn
Anthropic Is Lapping OpenAI, But At What Cost?
A bonkers Axios report, and new tax proposals from Rep. Greg Casar and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, signal an end to runaway AI spending.
 • Alex Shultz
You Have Inherent Value: An Ancient Lesson About New Machines
For 135 years — and again this week — Catholic leaders have been warning against evaluating humans by what we can produce. It's time to turn that lesson…
 • Jacob Ward
She Worked at Lyft and Stripe as a Product Manager. The Next Step in Her Career Ladder Was Quitting.
After jobs at Stripe and Lyft, Yana Michukova saw the writing on the wall for middle-management tech workers, and quit. She’s spoken to dozens of other…
 • Ariella Steinhorn and Yana Michukova
Post-Layoff Advice: “Diversify Your Career Like You Would a Stock Portfolio”
A former tech-worker-turned-advocate for employees who are over 40 tells us what laid-off workers are telling her, and what they can do to protect…
 • Ariella Steinhorn
Meta Hired You Because You’re Exceptional. Now It’s Laying You Off for the Same Reason.
Welcome to the horrible new math of being great at your job. Here's what just happened, and what to do next.
 • Jacob Ward
Elon Musk Wastes Everyone’s Time, Loses Lawsuit Against OpenAI
A jury ruled that Musk, who skipped the end of trial while on a jaunt to China with President Trump, took too long to bring his claims.
 • Alex Shultz
The People Want Sam Altman & Elon Musk to Be Held Accountable
From a teacher and health care workers to parents who tragically lost their son, speakers spoke to the environmental, economic, societal, and human cost…
 • William Fitzgerald
Hard Reset
Hard Reset
A publication about tech, labor, and power by Ariella Steinhorn, JJ Lansing, and Alex Shultz, featuring exclusive reporting, interviews, and insights about holding corporate power accountable.
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