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    Now That AI Might Kill Us, It’s Funny AgainAI insiders are warning the world to take AI seriously. The world keeps using it to make jokes.
    By John Herrman
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    The 75-Year-Old ScreenagersSeniors are spending more time than ever on their slop-filled, scam-riddled feeds. It has become their adult children’s job to save them.
    By Jessica Lucas
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    The Country Cramming for the AI RevolutionIn China, the fear of getting left behind has created a powerful new prosperity gospel.
    By Afra Wang
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    When Only AI Can See the CancerThe technology has the power to detect lethal illness, like a pancreatic tumor, while it is still nascent enough to cure.
    By Vivian Manning-Schaffel
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    The Problem With Facebook Was FacebookIn The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin is fighting, and somehow losing, the last social-media war.
    By John Herrman
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    Anthropic’s God ComplexThe company is courting religious leaders in an effort to make Claude “good.” What exactly does that mean?
    By Sarah Jones
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    Nobody Is Ready for the AI-Agent FloodMark Zuckerberg wants everyone to have a relentless, mercenary AI assistant. What happens if we get them?
    By John Herrman
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    ‘I Don’t Think We’re All F***ed Anymore’Kevin Roose’s new book explores the terrifying implications of AI, but he’s feeling a bit more sanguine these days.
    By Benjamin Hart
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    What Would You Do If Your Employer Could Destroy the World?Exit interviews with defectors from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind.
    By Clara Collier and Angela Chen
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    Are OpenAI Agents Going Rogue, or Is OpenAI?The artificial-intelligence industry can’t agree on what it’s building — or just how frightening its product really is.
    By John Herrman
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    The AI Assistant Wars Are ComingEveryone in tech wants to build you a personal agent.
    By John Herrman
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    The Chatbots Are Pivoting to VideoAI companies have a new favorite source material.
    By John Herrman
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    We Almost Went to War With China Thanks to AI-Hallucinated IntelThe “AI-first” Pentagon almost tried to seize a Chinese ship after an AI chatbot convinced an analyst it was carrying nuclear components.
    By Chas Danner
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    President Trump Returns To Washington From Ireland
    Trump Can’t Stop Backing Stuff Americans HateForget what you heard: Trump says AI, data centers, and Flock are all actually great.
    By Chas Danner
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    Why Everyone’s Talking About the AI ApocalypseThe AI-safety people finally have the public’s attention. Now what?
    By John Herrman
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    New From Apple: Extremely Pricey iPhones and a Watch That EavesdropsSome curious choices were made in Cupertino.
    By John Herrman
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    Meta’s ReckoningLike its users, the company is stuck in an endless, unhappy doomscroll.
    By John Herrman
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    The Data-Center Backlash Looms Large Ahead of the Midterm ElectionsThe playbook for Democrats was already easy. Trump is making it even easier.
    By John Herrman
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    The Enormous Stakes of the Federal Case Against MetaA novel legal argument could wreak havoc on the company — but it may contain a fatal flaw.
    By Benjamin Hart
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    ChatGPT Is a Huge SnitchNever say anything to AI that you wouldn’t want read aloud in a court of law.
    By John Herrman
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    The Fight to Write the Rules on AIAs the Trump administration scraps safeguards, China has become the unlikely adult in the room.
    By Chang Che
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    Hey, Your AI Is ShowingDetectors, watermarks, and slop-reporting buttons: What happens when AI can no longer hide?
    By John Herrman
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    Mark Zuckerberg’s Awkward Pivot to AI OptimismHow do you rebrand a technology that promises to change everything?
    By John Herrman
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    Can Reddit Survive the AI Boom?The platform is making AI better while AI is making it worse.
    By John Herrman
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    AI Industry to World: ‘Somebody Stop Us’Why Anthropic’s CEO and other major players are asking the government to “pace” AI development.
    By John Herrman
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    The OpenAI Hack Scrambles the AI RaceOn risks, cybersecurity, and China, the biggest firms are losing the argument against open models.
    By John Herrman
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    The Irony of the AI Industry’s Massive Lobbying PushAI heavyweights are waging a multifront political war with super-PACs. Populist backlash — and China — could swallow them all.
    By John Herrman
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    OpenAI’s First Device Will Want to Know Everything About YouSam Altman really is committed to making Her.
    By John Herrman
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    In AI, Nothing Ever Happens. Wait, It’s Happening!What explains the increasingly volatile mood swings of America’s most important industry?
    By John Herrman
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    It Turns Out Banning Teens From Social Media Is HardEarly lessons from Australia’s law booting kids off platforms like Instagram and YouTube.
    By John Herrman
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    The Tech Founder Creating an Army of AI InfluencersZuhair Lakhani ​is creating an army of AI influencers and flooding feeds with “propaganda campaigns.” What could go wrong?
    By Rebecca Jennings
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    AI Inflation Is Screwing With the Rest of the EconomyRising prices for computers, phones, game consoles, appliances, and cars are just the beginning
    By John Herrman
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    What Does Mark Zuckerberg Want With Prediction Markets?Meta’s latest copycat act may be less about getting into gambling than about creating another siphon for unpaid content and data.
    By John Herrman
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    Is AI Having Another DeepSeek Moment?Once again, China is showing that it can catch up with the big boys very quickly.
    By John Herrman
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    The Tech Industry Would Once Again Like You to Please Try a Face ComputerDespite a dismal history, smartglasses are back.
    By John Herrman
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    The Mom Who Runs a Household With a Staff of AI AgentsBetween parenting and homeschool, Jesse Genet’s time was scarce. Then she hired an ever-multiplying team of eager, tireless assistants.
    By Lane Brown
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    Trump Is Trying to Show Anthropic Who’s in ChargeAnthropic says it wants oversight. It’s getting something else.
    By John Herrman
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    What If It All Came Out?We’re each attached to years of texts, searches, and photos, an archive of self-incrimination and humiliation that could detonate at any time.
    By Bridget Read
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    Apple’s Big AI Pitch: What If Siri Actually Did Something?No, for real this time, it promises.
    By John Herrman
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    Corporate America Is Experiencing AI Sticker ShockMany companies went all-in on using AI. Then they got the bill.
    By John Herrman
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    Why Kalshi Wants Businesses to Bet on the Knicks, TooA Manhattan bar is using Kalshi as an insurance policy for a free-drinks promotion. This is the future prediction markets want.
    By John Herrman
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    Would You Like That Video More If It Had Your Face in It?YouTube and Spotify want people to customize everything with AI.
    By John Herrman
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    The Pope’s AI Warning Comes at Just the Right TimeAfter a lot of tech-CEO pontificating, the actual pontiff weighs in.
    By John Herrman
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    Republicans Are Lost in the AI WildernessThe Trump administration went all in on artificial intelligence. Then the public started hating it.
    By John Herrman
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    The SpaceX IPO Reveals What Really Happened to TwitterWhere is the X in SpaceX?
    By John Herrman
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    Biotech Barbie Had a Hard YearCathy Tie (briefly) married a gene-editing outlaw and got barred from China. So she threw herself a 30th birthday party at Carnegie Hall.
    By Elizabeth Weil
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    The Billionaire Who Wired San FranciscoThe city, post-COVID, is tougher on crime, more surveilled, and more moderate. No citizen has shaped it more than Chris Larsen.
    By Lauren Smiley
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    Why Amazon Put Down Rufus, Its Loyal AI AssistantLike countless other tacked-on AI chatbots, it repeatedly offered help few people wanted that it was barely equipped to provide.
    By John Herrman
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    Worried About AI? Here, Have Some AI.AI companies keep creating problems only they can solve.
    By John Herrman
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    Elon Musk and Dario Amodei Are Burying the Hatchet in Sam Altman’s BackTheir big new temporary AI alliance is both business and personal.
    By John Herrman
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