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Y Combinator's CEO Garry Tan has been claiming he ships thirty-seven thousand lines of AI-generated code per day. A developer decided to look under the hood, and Fast Company reports the numbers don't quite hold up to scrutiny. It's a familiar tension — when leaders conflate activity with output, the whole conversation about AI productivity gets muddier.
Meanwhile, Meta is staring down one point four trillion dollars in state lawsuits over the addictive design of its platforms. Four US states are moving forward with claims that Facebook and Instagram were deliberately engineered to hook users, particularly young ones. The scale of the litigation signals that the era of shrugging at algorithmic harm may finally be closing.
And in a story that captures everything frustrating about public sector IT, Northern Ireland's Education Authority is making its second attempt in four years to remove Capita from a schools technology contract. An earlier replacement deal with Fujitsu collapsed by mutual agreement in late twenty twenty four. The new procurement is valued at up to eight hundred fifty one million pounds, and the clock is already ticking on whether this effort fares any better.
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