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The 44 Days That Kept Powell's Job Hostage
A federal court found no evidence. The probe stayed open until the nominee finished his hearing.
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Your city got a data center. Here's what it cost.
Texas revised its own subsidy estimate by 8x. Fourteen states don't even track what they're giving away.
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Claude's Safety Lives on Anthropic's Servers
A federal court asked if Anthropic could control deployed Claude. The answer was no.
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Atlassian's Opt-Out Only Comes in Enterprise
Their own support page still says "never." It went live in November.
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The AI Study That Graded Its Own Customers
Nearly 90% of firms say AI hasn't moved their productivity. The consulting industry billed $11B anyway.
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Miller Owns the Stock. Palantir Got the Contract.
$29,898,236. No competitive bidding. An "urgent" emergency that only one vendor could fulfill.
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SEC's 456 Cases: The Metric Got Rewritten
The fewest enforcement actions in 20+ years arrived with a press release that says counting them was always wrong.
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The €4/Hour 'Made in Italy' Label
Milan prosecutors caught Dior, Armani, Loro Piana. The reform bill stalled in December.
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The Best ROI in American Finance
22,000% return. 93 firms. One tax holiday. And it's entirely legal.
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Meta Ran the Experiment. Then Told Congress No.
$6M verdict. $801M in ad revenue from kids who weren't supposed to be there. The 12 months in between are the story.
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The $53 Pill That Costs 69 Cents in England
Same molecule. The 60x price gap traces to a 2002 decision nobody ever rewrote.
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Medicare's New AI Pays to Deny
CMS wrote the incentive in plain English. Contractors get a cut of every denial.