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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
Elon Musk’s Most Alarming Power Grab
Can anyone stop his space-based internet?
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.
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.