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Nobody Cares If Music Is Real Anymore

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

Sexting With Gemini

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

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

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

Why Trump Can’t Make the Epstein Story Go Away

His brainwashing powers are finite.

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.”

A Disaster for American Innovation

The Trump administration is jeopardizing the AI boom.

The AI Birthday Letter That Blew Me Away

Google is ushering in an era of custom chatbots.

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

Can AI companies keep stealing books to train their models?

What AI Thinks It Knows About You

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

Extreme Violence Without Genocide

The plight of white South Africans is part of a much larger problem.

The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You Are

There are good reasons you always feel 20 percent younger than your actual age.

The Gen Z Lifestyle Subsidy

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

‘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.

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.

I Left My Church—And Found Christianity

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

Putin Needs to Believe He Can’t Win

The way to get a peace agreement is to change the battlefield.

Congrats on the New DOD Gig, MechaHitler!

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

Chatbots Are Cheating on Their Benchmark Tests

AI programs train on questions they’re later tested on. So how do we know if they’re getting smarter?

AI Is Not Your Friend

How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it