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Photos: The Grand Canyon Burns

The Dragon Bravo wildfire in Arizona grew rapidly over the past weekend, destroying the historic Grand Canyon Lodge and dozens of other structures along the canyon’s North Rim.

Why Trump Can’t Make the Epstein Story Go Away

His brainwashing powers are finite.

I Left My Church—And Found Christianity

No one should have to choose between their community and their own integrity.

The Man Out to Prove How Dumb AI Still Is

François Chollet has constructed the ultimate test for the bots.

Big Tech’s AI Endgame Is Coming Into Focus

One app to rule them all

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust

The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

AI Executives Promise Cancer Cures. Here’s the Reality

The technology is genuinely useful for scientific discovery, but its applications are less dramatic than you might think.

Congrats on the New DOD Gig, MechaHitler!

Turns out, going on anti-Semitic tirades didn’t stop Grok from winning a big government contract.

The Gen Z Lifestyle Subsidy

In the 2010s, Millennials got cheap Ubers. Today’s young people are getting free SuperGrok.

The AI Birthday Letter That Blew Me Away

Google is ushering in an era of custom chatbots.

Nobody Cares If Music Is Real Anymore

“​​Rubber burns, the map fades away / Chasing the ghosts of yesterday.” Sure, fine.

What AI Thinks It Knows About You

What happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them?

The First Social-Media Babies Are Growing Up—And They’re Horrified

How would you feel if millions of people watched your childhood tantrums?

At Least Two Newspapers Syndicated AI Garbage

Slop the presses.

Elon Musk Updated Grok. Guess What It Said?

After praising Hitler earlier this week, the chatbot is now listing the “good races.”

‘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.

Sexting With Gemini

Why did Google’s supposedly teen-friendly chatbot say it wanted to tie me up?

The End of Publishing as We Know It

Inside Silicon Valley’s assault on the media

‘We’re Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI’

The true story behind the chaos at OpenAI

Judges Don’t Know What AI’s Book Piracy Means

Can AI companies keep stealing books to train their models?