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The Ban Arrived After the Camera Shipped
Instagram just banned pickup artists and pranksters who film people with Meta glasses. The policy is tidy, and the thinking behind it is not. A ban is what an organization writes when it has decided not to redesign the thing it already built, and once you see that shape you start seeing it everywhere: in…
The Picks, the Shovels, and the Mine
Anthropic bought the dev tools startup that OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare were already paying for. Read that sentence again. The company selling you the model now owns the workbench you use to build with everyone else’s model too. That is not vertical integration in the gentle sense. It is a frontier lab quietly making rent…