Intro
Coinbase shareholders: who owns the most COIN stock? | Capital.com - https://capital.com/en-int/analysis/coinbase-shareholder-who-owns-most-coin-stock
NASDAQ: COIN Coinbase Global Inc Stock Ownership - https://www.wallstreetzen.com/stocks/us/nasdaq/coin/ownership
Investing in Flock Safety | Andreessen Horowitz - https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-flock-safety/
Andreessen Leads Funding Valuing Flock Safety at $7.5 Billion - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/andreessen-leads-funding-valuing-flock-035523813.html
Andreessen Horowitz raises $15 billion, doubling down on AI and defense startups | Reuters - https://www.reuters.com/business/andreessen-horowitz-raises-15-billion-across-five-funds-tech-startup-investments-2026-01-09/
Main
Richard Dawkins and AI: the lights are on, but nobody's home - The Skeptic - https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2026/05/richard-dawkins-and-ai-the-lights-are-on-but-nobodys-home/
1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study - Ars Technica - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/real-humans-appeared-human-63-of-the-time-in-recent-turing-test-ai-study/
The AI bubble will pop. It’s up to us to replace it responsibly | Mark Surman | The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/30/ai-bubble-mozilla
AI chatbots give inaccurate medical advice says Oxford Uni study - BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3093gjy2ero
New study warns of risks in AI chatbots giving medical advice | Oxford University - https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-02-10-new-study-warns-risks-ai-chatbots-giving-medical-advice
Recovering memories: Could the Satanic Panic happen again? - The Skeptic - https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2021/07/recovering-memories-could-the-satanic-panic-happen-again/
Stop referencing fake case citations, judges warned | Law Gazette - https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/stop-referencing-fake-case-citations-judges-warned/5125602.article
AI remains top reason for US job cuts for third straight month as employers axed 97,000 workers in May - https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/ai-remains-top-reason-us-job-cuts-third-straight-month-employers-axed-97000-workers-may
Mothers say AI chatbots encouraged their sons to kill themselves - BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3xgwyywe4o
Google faces lawsuit after Gemini chatbot allegedly instructed man to kill himself - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/04/gemini-chatbot-google-jonathan-gavalas
Deaths linked to chatbots - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots
Data Centers and Water Consumption | Article | EESI - https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-consumption
AI Could Use as Much Water as 1.3 Billion People by 2030, U.N. Report Warns - https://time.com/article/2026/06/03/ai-global-water-resources-un-report/
Musk predicts more AI capacity will be in orbit than on earth in 5 years, with SpaceX becoming a ‘hyper-hyper’ scaler | Fortune - https://fortune.com/2026/02/06/elon-musk-space-based-ai-data-centers-spacex-hyperscaler-starship/
Undercard
A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion - https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/
License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows - https://www.404media.co/license-plate-reader-company-flock-is-building-a-massive-people-lookup-tool-leak-shows/
Madison Square Garden Uses Facial Recognition to Ban Its Owner’s Enemies - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/nyregion/madison-square-garden-facial-recognition.html
Flock’s Aggressive Expansions Go Far Beyond Simple Driver Surveillance | ACLU - https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/flock-roundup
SoundThinking - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundThinking
Is Chicago crime out of control, as Trump claims? The data says no - https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-crime-data-trump-national-guard/
Here are 10 cities with the highest murder rates - https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5482375-homicide-rates-major-cities/
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