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A Washington state advocacy group is raising alarms over what it describes as a coordinated effort to fabricate public opposition to a proposed tax on the ultra-wealthy, alleging that fake names were used to sign in at legislative hearings to create the illusion of broad grassroots resistance. The accusations, if substantiated, would represent a troubling manipulation of the democratic process at a time when tax policy debates are intensifying across the Pacific Northwest.

When Samar Abbas co-founded Temporal in 2019, the company was solving a problem most people outside of software engineering had never heard of: durable execution. The idea was straightforward but technically demanding — ensure that long-running software processes could survive failures, crashes, and interruptions without losing their place. It was plumbing for the cloud era, the kind of infrastructure that powered critical systems at companies like Uber, Netflix, and Snap.

Google has implemented a significant policy change for its advertising platform that requires advertisers to explicitly authorize any account modifications suggested by Google Ads support representatives before those changes can be applied. The move, which has been rolling out in recent weeks, represents a direct response to years of complaints from digital marketers who say that unsolicited changes made by Google’s support teams have caused campaign disruptions, wasted budgets, and eroded trust in the platform’s customer service infrastructure.

A grassroots movement is gaining traction across social media, and OpenAI should be paying attention. Under the banner of #QuitGPT, an estimated 700,000 users have reportedly abandoned ChatGPT in recent weeks, migrating to rival artificial intelligence platforms in what appears to be one of the most significant consumer backlashes the AI industry has witnessed since the chatbot boom began in late 2022.