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The courts on antitrust: Proceed with caution in fast-moving tech markets.
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Technology Is Fast and the Courts Are Slow
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November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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IBM too. Cutting costs, and shedding some workers, to double down on AI.
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IBM to Cut Thousands of Workers Amid A.I. Boom
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November 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Big Tech brings its wares to Cal State, the nation's largest university system. Smart, nuanced take by
@natashanyt
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Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground
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October 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The UN makes its bid for relevance in the AI world. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...
Countries Consider A.I.’s Dangers and Benefits at U.N.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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What's to be done with Google? Not so much.
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The Message for Big Tech in the Google Ruling: Play Nice, but Play On
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September 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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“The raw technological horsepower is terrific, but it’s not going to determine how quickly A.I. transforms the economy.” - Andrew McAfee, research scientist at MIT and co-founder of Workhelix.
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Companies Are Pouring Billions Into A.I. It Has Yet to Pay Off.
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August 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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AI technology is racing ahead, but the payoff for companies outside the tech sector is lagging behind so far. How soon will that change?
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Companies Are Pouring Billions Into A.I. It Has Yet to Pay Off.
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August 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Great, close-up piece on the AI impact on the onramp of the tech job market. @natashanyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
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August 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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"Shut up and grind" - pretty much says it all. The view from the Silicon Valley rank-and-file. @kateconger.com
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So Long to Tech’s Dream Job
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August 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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The evolution of Silicon Valley explained -- the tech, the culture, the politics. A good read too. @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...
Silicon Valley Is in Its ‘Hard Tech’ Era
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August 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Our obituary of Bill Neukom, Microsoft's antitrust warrior and a lot more. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/b...
William H. Neukom, Microsoft Lawyer Who Led Antitrust Fight, Dies at 83
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July 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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AI formula for the future: "Hire junior employees who use A.I. to do what was once midlevel work, a handful of senior employees to oversee them and almost no middle-tier employees." @noamscheiber.bsky.social
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Which Workers Will A.I. Hurt Most: The Young or the Experienced?
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July 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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A visit to an epicenter of the AI data center building boom. Its staggering size and scale close up. Karen Weise and Cade Metz
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At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
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July 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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The generative AI wave is shaking up all of academia, but computer science is at the forefront.
“We’re seeing the tip of the A.I. tsunami.” Jeannette Wing, Columbia University.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/t...
How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?
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July 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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The future of computer science: More real-world problem solving and less programming?
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How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?
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June 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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A federal judge ruled that Google illegally protected its monopoly in internet search. Is court-ordered data sharing the solution?
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The Judge’s Data Dilemma in the Google Search Case
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May 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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AI comes to Miami schools. The students are intelligent users. And the story from @natashanyt.bsky.social is the usual high standard. The AI future may not be so scary, after all.
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How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future
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May 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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“Five years from now, it will be malpractice not to use A.I. But it will be humans and A.I. working together.” - Dr. John Halamka, Mayo Clinic
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
Your A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be With You Soon
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May 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Their jobs appeared to be in AI’s crosshairs. But it hasn’t worked out that way for radiologists.
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Your A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be With You Soon
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May 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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A second solid antitrust win for the Justice Department – and a second sobering loss for Google. But there’s a long way to go and different paths to an endgame.
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Google Makes History With Rapid-Fire Antitrust Losses
Within a year, two federal judges declared the tech giant a monopoly in search and ad technology. The tide may be turning for antitrust.
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April 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Immigrant Crackdown Inc. A close look at a company cashing in. @paulmozur.bsky.social + @satariano.bsky.social + @Aaron_Krolik www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/t...
This Company’s Surveillance Tech Makes Immigrants ‘Easy Pickings’ for Trump
Geo Group, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big business winners as its tech is increasingly used in deportations.
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April 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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“Divestiture can be an entirely acceptable remedy, depending on the severity of the harm. But it can be risky surgery.” - William Kovacic, former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
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The U.S. Wants to Break Up Google and Meta. That Could Be Hard.
For the first time since the late 1990s Microsoft case, federal trials are weighing antitrust breakups, a tactic that harks back to Standard Oil.
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April 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Why breaking up is hard to do – in antitrust.
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The U.S. Wants to Break Up Google and Meta. That Could Be Hard.
For the first time since the late 1990s Microsoft case, federal trials are weighing antitrust breakups, a tactic that harks back to Standard Oil.
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April 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Why American apparel makers aren't rejoicing over tariffs. Trade is complicated, as @lydiadepillis.bsky.social smartly explains.
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For U.S. Apparel Manufacturers, Chaotic Tariff Policy Isn’t Much Help
Even companies that make clothing in America aren’t feeling great about stiff duties on their overseas competition.
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April 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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A Web pioneer hoping to change the game again.
What Mike McCue calls the "open social web."
“Now innovation will become decentralized around human connection." @johnmarkoff.bsky.social
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A Long-Shot Bet to Bypass the Middlemen of Social Media
Facing the looming threat of A.I. as a competitor, some publishers are considering an alternative to the internet’s all-powerful algorithms.
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March 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM