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Four days after the deal closed, TikTok US is blocking "Epstein" in DMs, experiencing convenient outages, and facing a censorship investigation. Everyone got what they wanted.
How a lobster-themed open-source project exposes the structural weakness of AI Aggregators
Apple partnering with Google for Siri isn't a pivot—it's a surrender that undermines the company's core strategic identity
Microsoft's admission that it hands encryption keys to the FBI isn't a scandal—it's the logical endpoint of design choices made a decade ago
ByteDance keeps 19.9% and the algorithm. America gets a security theater wrapper. Everyone declares victory.
Anthropic is building AI governance for a world where we don't know if we're creating moral patients. Their competitors think this is absurd.
Thinking Machines Lab raised $2B at a $12B valuation in July. By January, the co-founders were fleeing back to OpenAI.
The $82.7 billion all-cash bid isn't about content libraries. It's about the structural logic that was always going to win.