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- As the U.S. races to bypass China, the global hunger for critical minerals is financing warlords and poisoning Myanmar’s borderlands
- One of the clearest lessons of 2024’s “year of elections” was that the impact of deepfakes was significantly overstated. More important is what happens when AI is embedded in the systems that administer elections themselves
- While consumers flock to ChatGPT and Claude, companies are increasingly turning to open models that they can customize and control, says Krikorian
- China’s new rules governing emotionally interactive chatbots have caused a wave of digital breakups with AI lovers

