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The IRS Wants Smarter Audits. Palantir Could Help Decide Who Gets Flagged

The Internal Revenue Service paid Palantir $1.8 million last year to improve a custom tool designed to help the tax agency identify the “highest-value” cases for audits, collection of unpaid taxes, and...

AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics

The world’s top AI research conference, the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems—better known as NeurIPS—became the latest organization this week to become embroiled in a growing clash between geopolitics and global...

Apple Still Plans to Sell iPhones When It Turns 100

Apple is allergic to nostalgia. In 2008, when the Macintosh was about to turn 25, I mentioned it to Steve Jobs and he instantly shut down the discussion. “If you look backward...

Anthropic Supply-Chain-Risk Designation Halted by Judge

Anthropic won a preliminary injunction barring the US Department of Defense from labeling it a supply-chain risk, potentially clearing the way for customers to resume working with the company. The ruling on...

Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories

When technology reporter Alex Heath has a scoop, he sits down at his computer and speaks into a microphone. He’s not talking to a human colleague—Heath went independent on Substack last year—he’s...

The Government’s Shittiest Website

Emilia Rybak just wanted to register to vote.Last fall, Rybak was changing her residency from New York to Florida, and the first step in the long slog of forms and paperwork was...

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