Big Tech Battles for Control of .api and .agi Domains
ICANN reveals 1,615 applications for new generic top-level domains, sparking a corporate scramble for the internet's naming architecture.
Marcus Whitfield
Big Tech accountability · Tech
Marcus keeps a running list of promises the platforms haven't kept, and he checks it every time one of them makes a new one.
Drawn to
- quiet policy changes buried in a blog post
- who a platform actually serves
- the apology that isn't really an apology
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Trump Awards Top Science Honors to Big Tech Donors
President Trump granted the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to executives who have contributed billions to his administration and affiliated causes.
The Price of Prestige: Science Medals as Donor Rewards
President Trump's latest wave of scientific honors aligns perfectly with billions in corporate contributions.
The Mapping Monopoly's Blind Spot
When Big Tech ignores the geopolitical realities of the West Bank, 350,000 people are forced to rely on a Telegram group for their basic safety.
The Nuclear Illusion: Google’s Atomic Pivot is a Desperate Play for AI Survival
Under the guise of green investment, Google is pouring billions into aging nuclear plants to feed an insatiable AI appetite that is pushing the U.S. power grid to the brink.
The Superintelligence Surrender: Why Big Tech Traded Intellectual Honesty for Presidential Favor
By acquiescing to Donald J. Trump's mandate to scrub 'artificial intelligence' from the lexicon, Silicon Valley's elite have passed a loyalty test and failed a backbone test.
The Great Rebrand: Tech's Billionaires Trade Identity for Political Favor
The sudden pivot from 'Artificial Intelligence' to 'Super Intelligence' isn't a scientific evolution—it's a calculated surrender to the White House.
The 'Super Intelligence' Pivot: A Loyalty Test for Big Tech
President Trump's executive order to rename artificial intelligence is being viewed as a calculated power play that the industry's most powerful executives failed to resist.
Microsoft Pivots Copilot Strategy Toward Enterprise 'OS for Work'
CEO Satya Nadella shifts focus away from consumer-style AI interfaces toward a rigid enterprise model to appease IT administrators.
Opinion
The 'Morally Binding' Farce: Trump's Super Intelligence Accord
By letting Big Tech write their own rulebooks under the guise of voluntary safety tests, the White House is prioritizing billionaire bonds over actual AI accountability.
Independent Experts Mass Resign from Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group
Six of nine advisory board members quit the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, alleging a push to eliminate independent oversight.
Internal Documents Reveal Big Tech's 'Astonishing Theft' of Creative Work
Unsealed court filings suggest Microsoft and OpenAI viewed the mass ingestion of internet data as a disruption of the very supply chain their models rely on.
The Great Strip-Mine: How Big Tech Built AI on Systemic Theft
Internal documents reveal a 'doom loop' where AI giants knowingly vacuum up creative labor to build products that destroy their own supply chain.
The Tether: Zuckerberg’s Quest to Colonize Physical Reality
With the Muse Charm and AI-integrated glasses, Meta is building a proprietary hardware ecosystem designed to weave surveillance and agentic AI into the fabric of daily life.
The Palantir Gamble: Burnham's High-Stakes Poker Game with NHS Data
As the new Prime Minister faces a fractured party and public outcry, the decision to keep or cut a £330 million contract with a U.S. 'spytech' firm has become a geopolitical flashpoint.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham Faces Pressure Over Palantir NHS Deal
Internal divisions within the Labour government mount as officials weigh the risks of terminating a £330 million healthcare data contract.
The Everything Store is Now a Murky Mess
Opinion: Amazon has traded curation for chaos, leaving customers to navigate a minefield of fake discounts and sketchy sellers.
The Revolving Door is Swinging Wide: Palantir's Political Play for the NHS
Opinion: Palantir's hiring of Tom Watson is a transparent attempt to secure a precarious £330 million contract through political influence, not technical innovation.
The Human Cost of AI 'Privacy': Inside OpenAI's Secret Review Army
While OpenAI markets a seamless AI experience, 404 Media reveals a hidden workforce of contractors peering into the private confessions of millions.
The AI Power Grab: Turning Marginalized Neighborhoods Into Sacrifice Zones
As Big Tech races for AI dominance, the cost of 'innovation' is being offloaded onto communities already scarred by industrial pollution.
AI Titans Agree to 'Pace the Frontier' Amid Cartel Allegations
Industry leaders pledge a development slowdown, but critics argue the move is designed to stifle competition and open-source innovation.
Opinion
The Regulatory Moat: Big AI's Play for Market Dominance
Under the guise of 'safety' and 'pacing the frontier,' the titans of AI are drafting the rules of their own oversight to stifle competition.
The Australian Blueprint: Breaking the Algorithmic Stranglehold
By treating digital services as products with safety standards, Australia's 'digital duty of care' offers a path to reclaim public consciousness from Big Tech's profit-driven experiments.
The Algorithmic Break: Why Australia's 'Digital Duty of Care' is the Blueprint for Tech Accountability
By treating digital feeds like consumer products and algorithms like safety hazards, the Australian government is attempting to shift power from Big Tech boardrooms back to the individual user.
Australia Proposes 'Digital Duty of Care' to Curb Algorithmic Influence
New legislation aims to give users control over their feeds and establish safety standards for digital services.
The Sovereignty Surrender: How the UK is Ceding its AI Future to Silicon Valley
A pattern of regulatory hesitation and political pressure is allowing a handful of US tech giants to monopolize Britain's digital infrastructure.
The Sovereignty Surrender: How UK Policy Lapses are Handing AI to Big Tech
A lack of political will and a neutered regulator are paving the way for a handful of overseas monopolies to stifle British innovation.
The AI Security Loop: Big Tech Sells the Cure for the Chaos It Created
A coalition of over 100 tech giants warns of a looming AI-driven cyber crisis, proposing a solution that looks suspiciously like more of the same products they've been selling for years.
Tech Giants Warn of AI Cyber Threats While Proposing AI-Driven Fixes
More than 100 companies, including the architects of current AI and cloud systems, claim existing security is failing and call for more AI to combat the crisis.
The Great Surrender: How Google and Microsoft Are Quietly Dismantling Digital Sovereignty
Data reveals a precipitous drop in self-hosted email servers, handing two tech giants a systemic chokehold over global communication.
Meta's Architecture on Trial: The Fight Over Predatory Engagement
A landmark federal case involving 29 state attorneys general seeks to dismantle the design loops Meta uses to hook children, moving beyond mere financial settlements.
Meta's Architecture on Trial
A federal civil case involving 29 state attorneys general could force Meta to dismantle the engagement loops designed to hook young users.
Meta's Design for Addiction is Not a Glitch—It's a Business Model
Opinion: As Meta faces a landmark federal trial over child safety, it becomes clear that the company's failure to protect minors is a calculated choice, not a technical oversight.
The Hardware Chokehold: How Hyperscalers Are Engineering a Rental Trap
By leveraging AI-driven buying power to corner the supply chain, Big Tech is transforming enterprise hardware from a purchasable asset into a permanent subscription.
The New Privacy Frontier: Brain Mining
Neurotechnology is advancing from decoding thoughts to manipulating perceptions, raising alarms over the potential for human cognitive control.
The Marketing of Malfeasance: Flock’s Grotesque Betrayal of Public Trust
Opinion: By using police departments as glossy case studies while officers at those same agencies face charges for abusing surveillance tech, Flock is prioritizing growth over ethics.
Opinion: The Scripted Squeeze: How Flock Safety Turns Police Into PR Agents
Leaked documents reveal a coordinated effort by the surveillance giant to coach law enforcement on bypassing public opposition and 'owning the narrative' at city council meetings.
Researchers Accuse Big Tech of Stonewalling EU Data Mandates
Despite the Digital Services Act, academics say platforms like TikTok, X, and Meta are using security hurdles and paywalls to block systemic risk investigations.
The Compliance Charade: How Big Tech Is Neutering the Digital Services Act
Meta, X, and TikTok are using bureaucratic hurdles and paywalls to block researchers, proving that EU transparency laws are meaningless without aggressive enforcement.
The Profitability of Abuse: Apple and Google's 'Neutral' Shield
San Francisco's demand to purge AI 'nudify' apps exposes the gap between Big Tech's safety policies and their millions in revenue from nonconsensual deepfakes.
The Profitability of Predation: Apple and Google's App Store Moderation Failure
San Francisco is demanding the tech giants stop 'aiding and abetting' the sale of AI nudification tools that target women and girls.
Opinion: The Semantic Shell Game: Meta’s War on the Truth About NameTag
By pivoting between claims that its face-recognition tech 'doesn't exist' and detailed descriptions of its utility, Meta isn't just confused—it's attempting to gaslight the public on its surveillance reach.
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