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    The AI-Powered Hacking Spree Is HereIt turns out AI-coding tools are useful to criminals, too.
    By John Herrman
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    Why AI Companies Are Suddenly Worried About TheftModels built on scraped material are now getting scraped themselves.
    By John Herrman
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    X Really Is Pulling Users to the RightElites may not be as immune to this kind of algorithmic radicalization as they think.
    By John Herrman
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    Big AI Isn’t Waiting for the BacklashMeta and other AI companies are ramping up their lobbying before politicians figure out how unpopular the data centers are about to be.
    By John Herrman
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    Kalshi and Polymarket Are Eating Sports GamblingThe Trump administration says prediction markets are something different. Do their users agree?
    By John Herrman
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    The Singularity Is Going ViralAI insiders and outsiders are both feeling helpless about the same thing.
    By John Herrman
  8. just asking questions
    The Guy Who Wrote the Viral AI Post Wasn’t Trying to Scare YouMatt Shumer on the overwhelming reaction to his artificial-intelligence cri de coeur.
    By Benjamin Hart
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    All Those Super Bowl Ads About AI Were a Strange and Unsettling MessRing’s was downright creepy. Many others were confusing. Does big tech know what it’s selling?
    By John Herrman
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    The Robot Posters Aren’t Alive … YetAI’s social-media awakening has surprising implications for the industry.
    By John Herrman
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    It’s the First Real Crypto CrashCrypto was an alternative to the system. Now, it’s crashing with it.
    By John Herrman
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    The New Politics of the AI ApocalypseDario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, says more democracy is the best response to AI. He doesn’t sound too confident.
    By John Herrman
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    Silicon Valley Employees Are Starting to Protest AgainThe self-censorship that accompanied big tech’s MAGA pivot seems to be ending.
    By John Herrman
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    Instagram Reels and the New Era of Desocialized MediaPlatforms built to connect people, for better or for worse, are now for doing the opposite.
    By John Herrman
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    The AI Shopping Wars Are HereBig tech has big plans for bots that will do all your buying for you.
    By John Herrman
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    Apple Didn’t Have an AI Strategy. So It’s Buying One From Google.Cupertino finally threw its weight into the AI race — behind a familiar name.
    By John Herrman
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    What Good Are Prediction Markets If Nobody Can Agree on What Really Happened?Did the U.S. “invade” Venezuela? On Polymarket, nobody seems quite sure.
    By John Herrman
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    How AI Hijacked the Venezuela StoryAI news slop is less about tricking people than feeling good.
    By John Herrman
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    How Elon Musk’s X Shapes the AI BoomLike it or not, the artificial-intelligence race is playing out on X. That fact has some big implications.
    By John Herrman
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    Gamers Are Extremely Mad About AIIn-game slop is widely despised, and now AI is driving up prices.
    By John Herrman
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    ChatGPT Got Your Attention. Now It’ll Do Anything to Keep It.The AI engagement wars are here. Get ready for a lot of glazing.
    By John Herrman
  22. screen time
    How AI Companies Are Simulating the Robot TakeoverShort on data and shut out of the web, tech companies are training in a replicated internet.
    By John Herrman
  23. foreign affairs
    Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in GazaLife under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
    By Mohammed R. Mhawish
  24. screen time
    Why Sam Altman Declared ‘Code Red’ at OpenAIWhat happens when the avatar of the AI boom loses its juice?
    By John Herrman
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    A photo illustration of a screenshot from X
    How Spam Ate American PoliticsScores of MAGA influencers on X have been caught posting — and monetizing — from abroad.
    By John Herrman
  26. tomorrow
    The Droids Taking Over One of England’s Strangest TownsWant a glimpse of our robot-filled future? Just go to Milton Keynes.
    By Joanna Kavenna
  27. screen time
    Inside the AI BubbleHow big tech’s big bets became everybody’s problem.
    By John Herrman
  28. the stupid issue
    A Theory of DumbWhat if the cause of Americans’ collective cognitive decline is, simply, each other?
    By Lane Brown
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    The Global Internet Is Coming ApartMore and more countries are following China’s lead, limiting digital access and building their own “everything apps.”
    By John Herrman
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    Gambling Ate Sports Media. Is Politics Next?Prediction markets let you bet on news. Now they’re writing it, too.
    By John Herrman
  31. artificial intelligence
    ‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
    By James D. Walsh
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    Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Is a WarningThe centibillionaire’s Wikipedia clone is ridiculous. It’s also a glimpse of the future.
    By John Herrman
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    7 Reasons to Think Social Media Has PeakedThe platforms have big problems.
    By John Herrman
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    Humans Only: Why Amazon Is Mad About AI ShoppersThe new standoff between Amazon and Perplexity is a taste of the AI agent wars to come.
    By John Herrman
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    Why Sam Altman Really Wants You to Use OpenAI’s New BrowserThis isn’t just about taking on Chrome.
    By John Herrman
  36. screen time
    Why Is Amazon Watching Us?The retail giant just can’t help but monitor people!
    By John Herrman
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    Wikipedia Is Getting Pretty Worried About AIWikipedia content is everywhere, but fewer people are visiting the site.
    By John Herrman
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    Get Ready to See Yourself in AdsThanks to generative AI, the future may look like Minority Report.
    By John Herrman
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    Users Have One Big Problem With SoraIt turns out a TikTok for deep fakes needs an awful lot of rules.
    By John Herrman
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    Can an AI ‘Tinder for Jobs’ Make Looking for Work Suck Less?Maybe, but not before making it worse.
    By John Herrman
  41. social studies
    The Techno Optimist’s Guide to Futureproofing Your ChildAI doomers and bloomers are girding themselves for what’s coming — starting with their kids.
    By Benjamin Wallace
  42. screen time
    Sam Altman Is Trying to Manifest a New NvidiaThe booming AI industry wants more than one giant chip supplier.
    By John Herrman
  43. just asking questions
    The Big Advantage Humans Have Over AIArtificial-intelligence researcher Ethan Mollick says the robot job apocalypse isn’t happening anytime soon.
    By Benjamin Hart
  44. screen time
    Sora and the Sloppy Future of AIWhat’s a little deep-fake shitposting between friends?
    By John Herrman
  45. screen time
    AI’s Go-for-Broke Regulation StrategyCompanies like OpenAI wants to bend the law in one area, then use it as a liability shield in another.
    By John Herrman
  46. screen time
    Sam Altman’s Plan to Turn ChatGPT Into a FeedWhat do you call a chatbot that talks first?
    By John Herrman
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    AI Investment Is Starting to Look Like a Slush FundEveryone is everyone else’s customer, investor, vendor, and partner. That could create problems.
    By John Herrman
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    We’re Finally Getting a Clearer Look at the Future of WearablesThe tech industry’s new pitch: Put down your phone, and put on all these other gadgets.
    By John Herrman
  49. tomorrow
    The AI Kids Take San FranciscoBrilliant, workaholic teenagers are flooding the city — and reshaping our future in their image.
    By Kerry Howley
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    Reddit Wants a Lot More Money From AI CompaniesGoogle and OpenAI are building empires on Reddit’s data. The platform would like a cut, please.
    By John Herrman
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    The TikTok Ban Was Never What It SeemedA strange and tortuous saga may end with Trump allies controlling another social-media platform.
    By John Herrman
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