Elon Musk’s Most Alarming Power Grab
Can anyone stop his space-based internet?
Artificial Intelligence
Google’s New AI Puts Breasts on Minors—And J. D. Vance
A feature that lets you virtually try on clothes has a dangerous flaw.
What Are People Still Doing on X?
Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout.
How to Disappear
Inside the world of extreme-privacy consultants, who, for the right fee, will make you and your personal information very hard to find
OpenAI’s Ambitions Just Became Crystal Clear
But when you promise the world a revolutionary new product, it helps to have actually built one.
What AI Thinks It Knows About You
What happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them?
At Least Two Newspapers Syndicated AI Garbage
Slop the presses.
Why Are There So Many ‘Alternative Devices’ All of a Sudden?
The dream of a phone without problems
‘We’re Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI’
The true story behind the chaos at OpenAI
The Day Grok Told Everyone About ‘White Genocide’
What in the world just happened with Elon Musk’s chatbot?
Trump’s Tactical Burger Unit Is Beyond Parody
Happy Meal Team Six
Silicon Valley Braces for Chaos
The center of the tech universe seems to believe that Trump’s tariff whiplash is nothing compared with what they see coming from AI.
ChatGPT Turned Into a Studio Ghibli Machine. How Is That Legal?
Three possible arguments against the tech company
The Real Trump Family Business Is Crypto
The president's side hustle is proving to be very, very lucrative.
AI Is Not Your Friend
How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it
The Brands Are Very Sorry About Your Trauma
Why so many companies are inviting people to opt out of Mother’s Day emails
We’re Back to the Actually Internet
Fact-checking is out, “Community Notes” are in.
‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’
The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.
Everything Is the ‘Twitter Files’ Now
The State Department is using Elon Musk’s playbook.
Who Gets Panzer Tattooed on Their Arm?
The ink that tells the story of Trump’s second term
The Great Language Flattening
Chatbots learned from human writing. Now it’s their turn to influence us.
American Panopticon
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
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