Grok gets blocked
More than a week into a deepfake scandal, a handful of foreign governments have found the strength to do what Apple, Google, and the United States will not
The project that turned me into a Claude Code believer
I feel great about the website I’m building — and terrible for professional website builders. PLUS: Who will stop Grok? And ChatGPT will see you now
Inside the debate over AI consciousness
At ConCon, researchers and tech workers debate whether future systems could develop an inner life — and how you would know if they did
Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit
A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5
11 predictions for 2026
PLUS: What I got right (and wrong) about 2025
Spotify is part of the trade war now
The US is retaliating against the EU after it fined X — and now some of Europe's biggest companies are caught in the crossfire
Meta's scam problem may trigger a legal reckoning
A fresh investigation reveals the scope of Meta's problem in China. Will a pending court case force the company to crack down — or destroy Section 230?
OpenAI is a normal company now
A decade years in, what started as a sci-fi lab is now focused on engagement and growth. What does that mean for building AI safely?
Australia kicks the kids off social media
How social networks lost the argument. PLUS: All worked up over Nvidia's H200
How X made the EU's case for it
By banning an ad account on a flimsy pretext, X demonstrated the exact behavior that led the European Union to fine it. PLUS: The state AI law moratorium is back, and the Paramount-Netflix fight
Where Meta's biggest experiment in governance went wrong
Five years after the Oversight Board's creation, few are satisfied with the result. Can it be saved?
How researchers reversed polarization on X with a simple change to the algorithm
A new study offers evidence for what we’ve long suspected: rage bait is distorting our politics. PLUS: The David Sacks discourse, and Claude Opus 4.5 debuts
