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A Computer Wrote My Mother’s Obituary

The funeral industry turns to AI.

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.

The Entire Internet Is Reverting to Beta

The AI takeover is changing everything about the web—and not necessarily for the better.

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

Why Is Dad So Mad?

A father dares to explore his rage.

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.

Elon Musk Is Playing God

The tech billionaire wants to shape humanity’s future. Not everyone has a place there.

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust

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

The End of Publishing as We Know It

Inside Silicon Valley’s assault on the media

Big Tech’s AI Endgame Is Coming Into Focus

One app to rule them all

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?