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Meta Just Agreed to Pay $16.68 Billion for What Its Algorithm Was Built to Do. Every Major Platform Built the Same Thing.

Meta's $16.68 billion settlement resolves one company's liability for engineering Facebook and Instagram to keep children scrolling. It doesn't touch the mechanism underneath it -- rank content by what holds attention -- that X, YouTube, and TikTok each built their own version of, with real, documented cost to the country, not just to Meta's users.

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A Machine Already Displaced Six Million American Workers. What Cost Them Wasn't the Job -- It Was Where the Job Loss Sent Them.

The closest real precedent for AI-driven job loss isn't a labor-market model -- it's the Great Migration, when cotton mechanization helpe...

IBM Spent Over $4 Billion Building an AI to Beat Cancer. Internal Documents Show It Recommended a Drug With an FDA Black-Box Warning to a Hemorrhaging Patient.

Watson Health's core failure wasn't ambition — it was training a system built for language pattern-matching on clean, hypothetical cancer...

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