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    #557: Close to the Borders of Sad

    March 6th, 2026 · 64 minutes

    Google employees plead with executives to place limits on the military's use of AI. Gemini faces its first major lawsuit. Google and Epic Games finally settled on something. And Android gets an integrated desktop mode.

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