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A class action lawsuit is taking aim at Verisign, the company that controls dot-com domain registrations. The suit alleges consumers have been overcharged for domain names, raising long-standing questions about whether a single company should hold a government-backed monopoly over the internet's most valuable real estate.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, journalist James Li has released a year-long investigation into OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and it's drawing attention across the tech community. The video, surfacing on Hacker News today, suggests the scrutiny around Altman's leadership and decision-making runs deeper than previous reporting has captured.
And from Noahpinion, futurist Ramez Naam is asking whether a million AI agents working in concert could produce something resembling superintelligence. Naam, notably skeptical for someone in his field, argues the answer is far from obvious. It's a grounded take on a question the industry tends to answer with enthusiasm before doing the math.
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