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Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash

Flock Safety faces a growing public outcry over concerns that its surveillance technology could be misused.

Executive Briefing: The $350K Job Has Three Parts and You Already Do One

The forward-deployed engineer is what every AI lab is hiring while promising autonomy. Your industry background is the part that qualifies you.

Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated

Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihoods. That seems illegal, right?

Life After Automation

Plus: One person running an engineering team of agents, what it costs to stay at the frontier, and the case for AI writing

Taxing all 938 billionaires at 100% wouldn't stop the $40 trillion national debt, says Elon Musk. Bernie Sanders says tax them 5% and send you a check

Taxing all 938 billionaires at 100% wouldn’t stop the $40 trillion national debt, says Elon Musk. Bernie Sanders says taxing them 5% cuts you a check

Despite his $2.6 billion net worth, MrBeast said he’s had to borrow cash and didn’t even have enough money in his bank account to buy McDonald’s

Some successful entrepreneurs sitting atop billion-dollar businesses say they may look rich on paper, but take a peek into their bank accounts, and they’re actually cash poor. Social media mogul Jimmy Donaldson, known to his 514 million YouTube subscribers as MrBeast, claims he’s just as broke as everyone else despite running a $5 billion entertainment empire.

Mark Carney says Canada ‘at war’ with US over trade

Prime Minister tells country Donald Trump ‘miscalculated’ by escalating tariff attack

Synthetic everything is warping America

It's poisoning the signals people rely on to understand reality.

I created a viral AI watermark remover. I wasn't ready for all the attention.

A tech entrepreneur developed an open-source project to remove AI watermarks, challenging Anthropic's watermark plan.

Government can bring robotics to life

Without policy, there are few incentives to automate business functions where labour costs are low

Meet the 18-year-old junk remover who vibe-coded his own pricing calculator and makes up to $15,000 a month

Carter Grandbois was 16 years old, working for a junk-removal operator in Johnstown, Colorado, when he noticed the cash. His boss kept a thick stack of it in the center console of his truck. Grandbois went home and talked to his dad, and within days, they bought a trailer. The first job paid $500 for 30 minutes of work. “That was kind of an eye-opener,” Grandbois, now 18 and working for himself full-time, told Fortune.

Opinion

Regarding the Aug. 12 news article “The data center backlash is building, just in time for the midterm elections”: