Maxime Marquette
MadMax is an independent bilingual news outlet based in Québec, publishing analysis on geopolitics, technology, democracy, and culture.
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Our editorial standards: sources are cited inline, corrections are fixed and logged publicly, and any use of artificial intelligence is disclosed.
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
4,540 columns published
XAI launches Voice Agent Builder, the voice becomes a commodity
Introduction: when the human voice becomes a software module
AI giants' $500 million bet to fix the jobs they are destroying
Introduction: a check against a wave
Rheinmetall finalizes DOK-ING acquisition to strengthen autonomous systems
Introduction: a deal that closes a strategic chapter
Trump wins expanded power to fire independent regulators
Introduction: a 91-year-old precedent swept away in one morning
Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender athletes in school sports
Introduction: a decision Washington had awaited for months
Glasgow 2026 enters the final countdown before the Commonwealth Games
Introduction: twenty days before Scotland's big moment
Nine Democratic governors take on the Postal Service over Trump's election order
Introduction: a six-page letter that denounces a presidential overreach
Musk cries foul after report reveals secret SpaceX AI phone
Introduction: an "utterly false" that convinces no one
Anthropic wades into drug discovery for neglected diseases
Introduction: when an artificial intelligence company becomes an apprentice pharmacist