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Palantir has long sold itself as a force for good, but internal Slack messages obtained by Wired reveal a workforce increasingly uneasy about that claim. Current and former employees describe a company in turmoil, questioning whether their data tools are being used in ways they can stand behind. That tension is rarely comfortable, and rarely quiet for long.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has quietly given Copilot a promotion inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The AI assistant is no longer just suggesting changes — it's making them. Users who didn't opt into this arrangement are finding their documents edited by software that didn't wait to be asked, which raises a familiar question about who really controls your work.
And in France, a strange story is unfolding at the intersection of weather data and prediction markets. The French meteorological agency has filed a police complaint after suspicious long-shot bets on Paris's daily maximum temperature paid out roughly thirty-five thousand dollars on Polymarket. Someone, it seems, may have tampered with the sensors themselves to move a market. That's a new kind of fraud for a new kind of casino.
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