xAI cut Grok AI’s data team
xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, recently reduced its data annotation workforce by at least 500 employees. This action, impacting the team responsible for refining data used to trai...
Spotify Says How Users Pay as Important as What They Play
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The average person thinks of payments rarely, if it all. And when they do, they are most likely to consider them as infrastructure. Something important, but ...
WTF is Model Context Protocol (MCP) and why should publishers care?
Originally published on Aug. 5, 2025, this article has been updated to include an explainer video. The video is sponsored by Optable. Optable did not have any input or approval over the video’s edit...
23 cents of every tax dollar goes to pay interest on U.S. debt
The United States is sitting atop a fiscal precipice. With the total U.S. debt surpassing $37.43 trillion as of September 2025, the nation faces a historic reality. Nearly one-quarter of every tax dol...
