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Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding
Data center leases, GPU supply contracts raise liabilities at Meta, Oracle, Nikkei study shows


Anthropic, please make a new Slack | Blog | Fivetran
Slack will be the Waterloo of closed data.

Mississippi “Data Center Giveaway Law” Leaves Residents in the Dark and Could Already Be Costing Utility Customers ~$11/mo.
A state law is failing to protect households from potentially rising power bills. How lawmakers and utilities can fix this.

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The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now
The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and Mark Zuckerberg acting in concert with a Trump-led authoritarian political project.

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SF ads call out tech firms for not paying for open source
: Puts Chief Tightwad Officers on notice

Stripe’s Acquisition of Bridge is a Stroke of Genius
controlled by banks, b2b payments account for $120 trillion yearly — compared to stripe’s $1 trillion

Daniela Gabor on Twitter / X
news from AI bubble:OpenAI plans to borrow USD 4bn from private equity TPG/Bain Capital/ Brookfield Asset Management, at 17.5% interest, to embed OpenAI products in their 2,000+ portfolio companies. literally paying Wall Street to force its products on their firms pic.twitter.com/SUPPTsXBg6— Daniela Gabor (@DanielaGabor) May 7, 2026

USA Today CEO Says Higher Pricing Strategy Working, Micropayments Showing ‘Interesting’ Results
USA Today Co.’s push to get readers paying higher prices for journalism is working and despite a nearly one-third drop in its…

Devs raise $130,000 in just five days to support laid-off peers
The game industry hardship fund bundle, meant to support game workers during ongoing mass layoffs, is over halfway through its goal of 200,000 USD.
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Sending Out an SMS: The Impact of Automatically Enrolling Consumers Into Overdraft Alerts
Incidental charges incurred by UK consumers on their Personal Current Account (PCA) are steep, especially for small amounts of unplanned borrowing and unpaid it