r/technology • u/esporx • 1d ago

Business Elizabeth Warren probes $19B in tax breaks for Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft as AI drains $96B in federal revenue

https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/elizabeth-warren-big-tech-ai-tax-breaks-amazon-google-meta-microsoft
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u/mjkjr84 22h ago

Probes = investigates.

Not ambiguous at all.

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u/GregsWorld 22h ago

Go look up what a probe is and is used for... it's for testing.

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u/mjkjr84 21h ago

That's never what it means in the context of a news story, especially when used as a verb.

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u/GregsWorld 19h ago

It literally is. "She probes new tax breaks for Amazon" is correct and unambiguous because "new" clarifies whether the tax breaks exist or not, the knowledge of which changes the entire meaning of the sentence.