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Elon Musk's Shameful Glide Path to a Trillion Dollars
The SpaceX IPO is the latest and largest example of Musk's unrepentant decisions and farfetched predictions working in his favor.
Jun 12
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Alex Shultz
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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.
Jun 11
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JJ Lansing
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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…
Jun 9
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Ariella Steinhorn
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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.
Jun 7
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Michael Redmond
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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.
Jun 5
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Alex Shultz
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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
Jun 3
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Ariella Steinhorn
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May 2026
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.
May 28
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Alex Shultz
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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…
May 27
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Jacob Ward
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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…
May 26
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Ariella Steinhorn
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Yana Michukova
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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…
May 21
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Ariella Steinhorn
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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.
May 20
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Jacob Ward
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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.
May 18
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Alex Shultz
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