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Meta goes on trial as Silicon Valley faces a growing backlash

Also: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed his surprising sympathy over the construction of datacenters across the country Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you from a sunny park in New York City, which was supposed to endure rain all weekend but in fact delivered the best weather of the year. ‘We are hitting a different chapter’: OpenAI leader warns of threa

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First seen
25 Aug 2026, 11:42 UTC
Last checked
26 Aug 2026, 10:59 UTC
Version history
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Current fingerprint
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Publisher layer

Recorded article metadata

Publisher
The Guardian
Country
England / United Kingdom
Source published
25 Aug 2026, 11:21 UTC
Source updated
No update timestamp supplied
Byline
Blake Montgomery
Section
Technology
Source-supplied excerpt
Also: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed his surprising sympathy over the construction of datacenters across the country Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you from a sunny park in New York City, which was supposed to endure rain all weekend but in fact delivered the best weather of the year. ‘We are hitting a different chapter’: OpenAI leader warns of threa
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    Meta goes on trial as Silicon Valley faces a growing backlash

    Also: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed his surprising sympathy over the construction of datacenters across the country Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you from a sunny park in New York City, which was supposed to endure rain all weekend but in fact delivered the best weather of the year. ‘We are hitting a different chapter’: OpenAI leader warns of threa

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    fe5641fcad7e...83e92b
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Labels with declared origins

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Publisher categories are copied from source metadata. Machine signals report observable wording or format and do not determine truth, intent, ethics, or wrongdoing.

  • machine content-type Reported news observable-rules-v1 / 70% rule confidence
  • publisher category Business rss-category
  • publisher category California rss-category
  • publisher category Datacenters – US rss-category
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Evidence layer

Capture provenance

Capture ID
#2360
Observed
25 Aug 2026, 11:42 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
Raw payload
474,177 bytes, private gzip evidence
Collector
news-ledger/0.1
Public boundary
metadata and excerpt