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No Opt-Out: AI Features You Cannot Escape
Adobe fills its tools with AI nudges nobody requested, Canva reprices a subscription around features people never wanted, and the industry debates only…
Sep 19
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Tarek Gara
Where the AIs Say They Stand
Ten AI models grade Middle Eastern politics every day. I made them take the test themselves — and one sentence decided whether they answered.
Sep 4
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Tarek Gara
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August 2026
Room for Improvement: The Perpetual Beta Product Problem
The subpar MVP was a survival tactic for startups with no money and no users. Somewhere in the AI era it became the strategy of the richest companies on…
Aug 22
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Tarek Gara
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The Bottleneck Is Not Compute
Saudi Arabia is buying AI infrastructure at historic scale, and a frustrated Saudi user just explained better than any analyst why the chips are the…
Aug 10
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Tarek Gara
July 2026
LLM Grooming: Aiming Propaganda at the Machine
Russia is flooding the open web with propaganda engineered to be scraped into AI training data. The tactic is real and inexpensive; whether it actually…
Jul 15
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Tarek Gara
June 2026
Who Decides What AI Calls True
The fear is about who can switch the models off. The real power is quieter, and harder to take back: who decides which version of the truth your AI…
Jun 24
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Tarek Gara
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