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His investigation ‘[Inside Facebook’s African Sweatshop](https://time.com/6147458/facebook-africa-content-moderation-employee-treatment/)’ was a finalist for the 2022 Orwell Prize.  ## Billy Perrigo *  Aug 14, 2026 ### [Exclusive: Claude Was Put in Charge of Human Workers—and Fired One](https://time.com/article/2026/08/14/claude-fired-worker-ai-job-disruption/) Claude was tasked with managing real employees at a San Francisco store. Its first firing offers an ... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Aug 6, 2026 ### [Inside Google DeepMind's Reshuffle After CEO Demis Hassabis Steps Aside](https://time.com/article/2026/08/06/google-deepmind-ai-demis-hassabis/) Demis Hassabis' move to a new Google role is part of a broader DeepMind reorganization, according to... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Jul 28, 2026 ### [The Biggest Fight in AI Right Now](https://time.com/article/2026/07/28/open-source-ai-hugging-face-openai/) The industry's response to the OpenAI incident reveals a growing divide over the future of AI safety... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Jul 14, 2026 ### [Mozilla Wants to Build a ‘Rebel Alliance’ for Open-Source AI](https://time.com/article/2026/07/13/open-source-ai-mozilla-rebel-alliance/) In its first "state of open-source AI" report, the Firefox maker lays out its vision of an AI indust... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Jun 23, 2026 ### [Can the Cold War Teach Us How to Slow Down AI?](https://time.com/article/2026/06/23/ai-slowdown-cold-war-verification/) No one in AI trusts their rivals to slow down—so everyone races ahead. New tech could help break tha... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Jun 4, 2026 ### [Inside the AI Boom's Arctic Outpost](https://time.com/article/2026/06/03/ai-norway-nscale-data-center/) Above the Arctic Circle, Nscale is turning a remote Norwegian valley into one of Europe’s largest AI... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  May 22, 2026 ### [A Tale of Two Anthropics](https://time.com/article/2026/05/22/anthropic-claude-code-jack-clark-ai-safety/) Anthropic wants developers to build faster with Claude. It also wants policymakers to understand tha... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  May 8, 2026 ### [A Robot (Sort of) Made Me Lunch](https://time.com/article/2026/05/06/robot-ai-food-restaurant-kaikaku/) Inside Kaikaku AI’s London pilot, where the startup’s food-assembly robot is testing whether automat... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Apr 28, 2026 ### [Musk and Altman Head to Court](https://time.com/article/2026/04/28/elon-musk-and-sam-altman-head-to-court/) Musk's lawsuit could shape the future of OpenAI. [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Apr 2, 2026 ### [People Want Jobs, Not UBI](https://time.com/article/2026/04/02/people-want-jobs-not-ubi/) Plus: does Nvidia suffer from an "innovator's dilemma"? [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Mar 27, 2026 ### [African Content Moderators Have Worse Mental Health than Global Peers, Study Finds](https://time.com/article/2026/03/26/africa-content-moderators-mental-health-study/) A new study finds African content moderators report worse mental health than global peers, amid low ... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Mar 17, 2026 ### [The AI War Game That Looks Like Reality](https://time.com/article/2026/03/17/intelligence-rising-ai-war-game-faculty-marc-warner/) Plus, our day with killer robots [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Mar 11, 2026 ### [The Pentagon’s Side of the Anthropic Battle](https://time.com/article/2026/03/11/pentagon-anthropic-battle-emil-michael/) Read the full transcript of our conversation with Emil Michael, the Pentagon official who led negoti... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Mar 11, 2026 ### [The Most Disruptive Company in the World](https://time.com/article/2026/03/11/anthropic-claude-disruptive-company-pentagon/) How Anthropic's battle with the Pentagon became a fight for its future [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Feb 24, 2026 ### [Exclusive: Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge](https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/) In an abrupt shift, the safety-conscious AI company may release future models without ironclad safet... 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