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April 9, 2026
Meta Cafeteria Workers Did What Execs Won’t: Took on ICE and Won
In Seattle, activists inside tech giants are leaning into grassroots fundraising and peer support as petitions and protests draw little response from executives.
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April 8, 2026
Conflicting Rulings Leave Anthropic in ‘Supply-Chain Risk’ Limbo
A US appeals court ruling is at odds with a separate, lower court decision from March, leaving uncertainty about if and how the US military can use the AI company's Claude model.
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April 8, 2026
5 Burning Questions About Elon Musk’s Terafab Chip Partnership with Intel
Intel’s role in Elon Musk’s ambitious chip venture is still murky, raising questions about what the partnership actually entails—and whether it can work at all.
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April 1, 2026
California Suspends Enforcement of Law Requiring VCs to Report Diversity Data
After investors appealed to the governor, California again delayed the deadline for venture firms to disclose the demographics of startup founders they back.
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March 26, 2026
Anthropic Supply-Chain-Risk Designation Halted by Judge
A judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s designation, clearing the way for Anthropic to keep doing business without the label starting next week.
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March 26, 2026
Anduril’s Real War Is With Itself
From drones to missiles to submarines, the $30.5 billion defense startup wants to transform how the tools of war are made. It’s not all going as planned.
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March 24, 2026
Pentagon’s ‘Attempt to Cripple’ Anthropic Is Troublesome, Judge Says
During a hearing Tuesday, a district court judge questioned the Department of Defense’s motivations for labeling the Claude AI developer a supply-chain risk.
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March 21, 2026
Anthropic Denies It Could Sabotage AI Tools During War
The Department of Defense alleges the AI developer could manipulate models in the middle of war. Company executives argue that’s impossible.
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March 18, 2026
Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal
After OpenAI’s Instant Checkout feature fell short, Walmart is instead embedding its Sparky chatbot directly into ChatGPT and Google Gemini.
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March 18, 2026
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On March 26, a panel of WIRED experts will dissect the defense tech industry’s impact on modern warfare. Submit your questions now.
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March 18, 2026
Justice Department Says Anthropic Can’t Be Trusted With Warfighting Systems
In response to Anthropic’s lawsuit, the government said it lawfully penalized the company for trying to limit how its Claude AI models could be used by the military.
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March 17, 2026
How Invisalign Became the World’s Biggest User of 3D Printers
Joe Hogan, Align Technology’s plastics-nerd CEO, says you shouldn’t eat with your aligners and that you don’t need to wear your retainers every night.
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March 11, 2026
Trump Administration Won’t Rule Out Further Action Against Anthropic
The White House is preparing an executive order targeting the AI startup, even as its earlier actions against the company face a major test in court.
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March 9, 2026
Anthropic Claims Pentagon Feud Could Cost It Billions
Executives at the AI startup say companies paused deal talks after the Trump administration labeled it a supply-chain risk, warning the fallout could cause a major revenue hit.
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March 9, 2026
Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain Risk Designation
The Claude chatbot developer says the Trump administration overstepped by escalating a contract dispute into a federal ban on the company’s technology.
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February 28, 2026
Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a 'Supply Chain Risk'
Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.
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February 21, 2026
Major government research lab appears to be squeezing out foreign scientists
"Noncitizens" lost after-hours access to a NIST lab last month.
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February 20, 2026
Leading US Research Lab Appears to Be Squeezing Out Foreign Scientists
House Democrats are demanding answers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and urging it to halt rumored changes they say could undermine its mission.
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February 19, 2026
OpenClaw security fears lead Meta, other AI firms to restrict its use
The viral agentic AI tool is known for being highly capable but also wildly unpredictable.
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February 17, 2026
Meta and Other Tech Companies Ban OpenClaw Over Cybersecurity Concerns
Security experts have urged people to be cautious with the viral agentic AI tool, known for being highly capable but also wildly unpredictable.
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February 9, 2026
No Company Has Admitted to Replacing Workers With AI in New York
New York state has required companies to disclose if “technological innovation or automation” was the cause of job loss for nearly a year. So far, none has.
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February 6, 2026
More Than 800 Google Workers Urge Company to Cancel Any Contracts With ICE and CBP
The campaign is among the largest anti-ICE protests by workers at a single company since federal agents shot and killed two people in Minneapolis last month.
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January 26, 2026
People Are Protesting Data Centers—but Embracing the Factories That Supply Them
As the data center backlash grows, support is growing for server factories and the hundreds of jobs they’re expected to bring.
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January 21, 2026
Micron Megafab Project Faces a New Hurdle as Activists Seek a Benefits Deal
Activists are demanding a way to hold the memory-chip maker accountable to its promises to protect the environment and embrace communities of color in central New York.
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