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Oh look, another Tom’s guide advertorial masking as original content…
I also suspect ArsTechnica of running sponsored AI stories these days.
They’re all doing it. Most tech these days just isn’t exciting enough to attract attention without them hyping it.
I would quite honestly be surprised, they have been vocal in the past about having no such thing.
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Have they ever not been?
Before the sale when Igor still wrote for them, Tom’s was pretty well respected as was Anand.