A document unveiled in a court case appears to show Amazon using AI to track workers and rank how likely they are to form unions. The document has been released as part of court proceedings between Amazon and Canadian union Unifor. It shows Amazon using an AI tool dubbed "Atlas" to give warehouses a risk score of between 100 and 900 for union activity, with a lower score meaning it believes workers are more likely to unionize. A higher score is “better” for leaders at the company, the document says. novaramedia.com/2026/10/19/a…

Lina Khan on AI: "These are individuals that have become used to a certain level of impunity, elite impunity that I think we've talked about in the past as being a broader cultural, social phenomena that results when we're not holding the rich and the powerful to the same rules and the same standards that we do to everybody else. I think there are a lot of magazine profiles and other assessments looking at what these individuals as a personal matter and their character. I think to me, some of that is a little bit less interesting than this basic question of: Who is deciding in the first instance what trajectory these technologies take? And whenever you have a tiny number of elites getting to call the shots around this potentially transformational technology, that is gonna be dangerous even if you have the most benevolent, well-meaning people in the driver's seat. It really comes down to the concentration of power." From our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute

Lina Khan on AI: "These are individuals that have become used to a certain level of impunity, elite impunity that I think we've talked about in the past as being a broader cultural, social phenomena that results when we're not holding the rich and the powerful to the same rules and the same standards that we do to everybody else. I think there are a lot of magazine profiles and other assessments looking at what these individuals as a personal matter and their character. I think to me, some of that is a little bit less interesting than this basic question of: Who is deciding in the first instance what trajectory these technologies take? And whenever you have a tiny number of elites getting to call the shots around this potentially transformational technology, that is gonna be dangerous even if you have the most benevolent, well-meaning people in the driver's seat. It really comes down to the concentration of power." From our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute

BREAKING: US oil prices rebound on reports stating that other reports claiming the US and Iran have reached a deal are false. We now have reports on reports that are moving hundreds of billions of dollars in market cap.

NEW: Youth sports is now costing parents as much as $25,000 a year. Private equity and corporations are turning a childhood pastime into something only the wealthy can afford. Youth sports has become a $40 billion industry, and the steep costs are crushing American families.

@ZohranKMamdani on AI: "Out of purpose comes dignity. "If we see the erasure of purpose of all these different kinds of jobs, we have a larger conversation to have about the dignity of that work for those who are left to still be employed." From our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute

Lina Khan on AI: "These are individuals that have become used to a certain level of impunity, elite impunity that I think we've talked about in the past as being a broader cultural, social phenomena that results when we're not holding the rich and the powerful to the same rules and the same standards that we do to everybody else. I think there are a lot of magazine profiles and other assessments looking at what these individuals as a personal matter and their character. I think to me, some of that is a little bit less interesting than this basic question of: Who is deciding in the first instance what trajectory these technologies take? And whenever you have a tiny number of elites getting to call the shots around this potentially transformational technology, that is gonna be dangerous even if you have the most benevolent, well-meaning people in the driver's seat. It really comes down to the concentration of power." From our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute

In the last few days it's been revealed that the Trump admin closed an investigation into @Meta for selling drugs to children & one into @Google-acquihired @character_ai for harvesting kids' data. This is what these companies get in return for financing Trump's ballroom and god knows what else. Massive corruption before our eyes, and Dems must investigate this when we take back the gavel.

.@VP: "It's laughable to me, the idea that Donald Trump has somehow been enriched by political office. He nearly had his life destroyed by his quest to become President!"

Zohran Mamdani:  "Let me first address the house-phishing example. This is what happens when realtors are using AI to generate images of apartments that are not actually on the market. It also speaks to this belief that we're seeing across many sectors, that if you use AI, then you are inhibited from the consequences of it... Lina Khan has spoken about this, which is that for all of this talk of AI as a technology of the future, it also obfuscates the fact that the laws of today can still be used to hold that technology accountable." From our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute

NEW: Insiders at Meta and other companies leaked to us about bosses using AI to spy on them. In tech, AI spies on workers, copies their work, and trains bots to replace them. At a call center "Emotion AI" evaluates the way a nurse talks, and tells her she doesn't have empathy.

KeShaun Pearson on xAI's data center buildout in Memphis: “We continue to see what is a cancerous buildout of hyperscale data centers. We went from 1 to 4. We went from 15 gas turbines to over 50. And our communities which have been red lined are now facing another era of digital redlining" From our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute