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RESEARCH · 1 SOURCE · MIT News AI

Book 'Against Tech Oligarchy' chronicles rise and decline of tech worker movement and AI's role

MIT PhD student JS Tan and former Kickstarter employee Clarissa Redwine published Against Tech Oligarchy (Haymarket Books, 2026), a book tracing how tech workers organized successful protests (e.g., Project Maven) and later saw their leverage decline. The authors argue factors including the 2022 market downturn and agentic AI coding systems contributed to reduced worker influence as some companies moved toward classified Pentagon AI work.

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STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Thoughtful Things launches Engram, a local 'tiny AI' sampler on Kickstarter

Music startup Thoughtful Things has launched a Kickstarter for Engram, a sampler/groovebox that runs a custom in-house "tiny AI" locally to mangle incoming audio and hallucinate new sounds. The company says it trained models only on open, commercially-licensed datasets (CC-BY or similar), plans to open Engram's firmware for custom models, and is offering a limited Kickstarter run with early pledges at $675 (expected retail around $850–$900).

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