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Megan Alcott

5 stories

Politics

Trump's Senate Pick in Texas Got Five Minutes at Five O'Clock in His Own State

Ken Paxton is trailing in the polls, and the convention his party staged in Dallas gave him a slot most delegates were still in traffic for.

Megan Alcott·3 min
Business

Thirty-eight companies filed a form with the SEC, then sold the filing as proof the SEC had approved them

The Securities and Exchange Commission says the paperwork it never reviews became the evidence of legitimacy, and it has now spelled out in court…

Megan Alcott·5 min
Business

FleetCor agrees to pay $100 million over fuel-card fees its customers could not find on an invoice

The order is not final and the Federal Trade Commission has not said how the money reaches the tens of thousands of small businesses it says were…

Megan Alcott·5 min
Tech

Fewer Than One in Ten Enterprise Applications Is Fully Observable, and Agents Are Now Writing the Code

Missing visibility used to slow human teams down, but agents now deploy at machine speed into estates that nobody can fully see, which turns a cost…

Megan Alcott·3 min
Tech

AI Is Eating the Tasks That Used to Train People, and the Payroll Data Already Shows It

Between 27 and 43 per cent of the hours in entry-level professional work have gone, and most of what disappeared was the work that taught juniors how…

Megan Alcott·3 min