"Netflix's ambitious target to double its advertising revenue to $3 billion signifies not just an expansion but a deeper integration of ads into its core strategy, signaling a shift from pure content consumption to monetizing viewer engagement on a massive scale."
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"A wave of artificially generated influencers is flooding social media ahead of the midterm elections, pushing pro-Trump messaging while posing as everyday Americans."
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"EEG sensors in Sabi's beanie can reportedly type out what you're thinking. Can it become a non-invasive alternative to Elon Musk's Neuralink?"
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“The top 1% of U.S. households held 31.7% of all household wealth in the third quarter of 2025, the highest share recorded since the Federal Reserve began tracking the data”
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“The top 1% of U.S. households held 31.7% of all household wealth in the third quarter of 2025, the highest share recorded since the Federal Reserve began tracking the data”
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“I was quite impressed, a little jarred and very surprised. I mean, an AI hired me.”
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Beware of technological trojan horses.
"Neuralink's ability to read data directly from our brains redefines psychopolitical dynamics, as it can influence our unconscious cognitive process, circumventing conscious thought." www.uab.cat/web/newsroom...
Neuralink aims to restore hearing for deaf individuals by directly stimulating the auditory cortex."
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Online advertisers typically build psychographic profiles on people's behavioral data. "They reverse engineer intentions. Now with brain data we can look straight into the source and collect data that most directly correlates to our intentions and beliefs.”
www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2...
Online advertisers typically build psychographic profiles on people's behavioral data. "They reverse engineer intentions. Now with brain data we can look straight into the source and collect data that most directly correlates to our intentions and beliefs.”
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"A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk’s social platform X against a coalition of advertisers that organized a boycott against the social media company."
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How did Melania cast her ballot? Can she find her marriage certificate to prove she legally changed her name?
“When I fired up [World of] Warcraft for the first time with pure thought control,” a Neuralink user wrote, "The first raid felt clunky, but once my brain and the BCI synced, it was pure magic. The freedom is addictive."
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32 paralyzed people have received a Chinese brain implant that allows them to control a soft robotic glove.
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“The approval awarded to Neuracle, a private firm founded in 2011, marked the first time globally that an invasive BCI could be sold and used on patients as a commercial product.”
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Love this
Oh, hell no!
A Big Night Light in the Sky? Start-Up Wants to Launch a Space Mirror. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/c...
“300 billionaires and their immediate family members donated more than $3 billion — 19 percent of all contributions — in federal elections in 2024”
It’s time to overturn Citizens United.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
“Ready Player One meets Idiocracy meets 1984’s Oceania, this is a must-read for fans of thought-provoking science fiction—one with the potential to become a dystopian classic.”—BlueInk Review of Virtuality
The tech bros are watching you.
In a shift of strategy, Musk is hiring Video Game Tutors. Not low-level testers, but experts who play games with Grok as part of an elite team and label every action, narrative choice, and combat mechanic to teach the AI what humans actually find fun.
thephrasemaker.com/2026/02/23/c...
China’s BrainCo is working on non-invasive BCI devices like focus-enhancing headbands for students or brain-controlled gaming interfaces.
www.techbuzz.ai/articles/chi...
Sam Altman is investing in BCI technology that delivers specially engineered proteins into the brain to integrate with neurons and amplify signals produced during neural firing. Ultrasound headbands then detect those amplified signals through the skull. quasa.io/media/openai...
Designed to move with the brain, rather than stay rigid, a new type of implant could improve brain-computer interface (BCI) technology.
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“Meta considered adding facial recognition to the first version of its Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2021 but pulled back over technical challenges and ethical concerns. It has renewed its efforts as the Trump administration has aligned closely with big tech companies.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
"Introducing ads in the middle of a therapy session creates a dystopian scenario that Anthropic is smart to exploit. If a user confesses to an AI that they are suffering from depression, the trust is broken if the platform immediately pivots to monetization."
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"despite widespread complaints about advertising, the economic reality remains that most consumers tolerate ads and prefer paying with their time and attention rather than their wallets."
www.mediavillage.com/article/ai-a...
'If we don't feed the advertisers, then we'll be forced to pay artists for their creative work'
The horrors!
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