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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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    Kalshi and Polymarket Are Worried About Their ReputationsPrediction markets are growing fast, have allies in government, and promise to democratize finance. The public sees them as gambling.
    By John Herrman
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    The Mystery of ‘Human Meat’ for Sale on TemuWhat is the story behind this strange and unsettling ad at the “shop like a billionaire” retailer?
    By John Herrman
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    The Downgrading of the American Tech WorkerMeta is laying off more workers — and monitoring the ones who are left in order to train AI to maybe replace them.
    By John Herrman
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    AI Job Loss Is Coming. Does Anyone Have a Plan?Elizabeth Warren, Josh Hawley, and other political insiders game out what Congress could and should do.
    As told to Jacob Rosenberg, Rebecca Traister, and Simon van Zuylen-Wood
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    What Will Follow Apple’s Tim Cook Era?After successfully expanding Steve Jobs’s vision, Cook is stepping aside as Apple faces a disorienting moment for tech.
    By John Herrman
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    Zuckerberg Is Trying to Figure Out What You’ll Pay Him ForThe basic bargain undergirding companies like Meta — free stuff for ad infiltration — is starting to break down.
    By John Herrman
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    The Industry of the Future Is Run by People Who Hate Each OtherAI leaders agree on two things: Change is coming, and the other guys can’t be trusted.
    By John Herrman
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    Is the AI Cybersecurity Apocalypse Already Here?Anthropic’s new model is a godsend for hackers — and a financial bonanza for the company.
    By John Herrman
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    AI’s ‘Big Tobacco’ Moment Is ComingIt took 20 years for backlash to swallow social media. AI leaders sense their reckoning is already underway.
    By John Herrman
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    Democrats Should Just Say No to AI MoneyDefying the AI lobby makes as much moral and political sense as defying AIPAC.
    By Ross Barkan
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    Social Media Companies Are Suddenly Getting Killed in CourtBig tech may finally be on the verge of its “big tobacco” moment.
    By John Herrman
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    Why AI Companies Want to Take Control of Your ComputerClaude would like a little help learning how to do your job.
    By John Herrman
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    The People Getting Falsely Accused of Using AI to WriteClean, precise prose is now a liability, and non-native English speakers and autistic writers are often paying the price.
    By Emma Alpern
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    The Story Behind All Those Fruit and Vegetable AI Slop VideosThe trend didn’t start with baby carrots begging for their lives. It also won’t end there.
    By E.J. Dickson
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    Why Iran Is Winning the Slop WarThe most prominent AI fantasies about the war on social media exaggerate the destruction and conjure visions of America’s failure.
    By John Herrman
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    Should You Be Able to Have Sex With ChatGPT?Against the advice of nearly everyone around him, Sam Altman wants his chatbot to get horny.
    By John Herrman
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    The Pentagon’s Total War Against AnthropicDario Amodei is worried about AI power. Pete Hegseth is more worried about his own.
    By John Herrman
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    The Rise of AI ‘Brain Fry’With the power of agentic tools, you too can become a stressed-out boss.
    By John Herrman
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    The Laid-off Scientists and Lawyers Training AI to Steal Their CareersExperienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.
    By Josh Dzieza
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    Apple Is Finally Making Cheap ComputersThe $599 MacBook Neo is the company’s first true budget product. Why now?
    By John Herrman
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    Is It Illegal to Bet on Inside Information About the Iran War?And does that also apply to betting on what words MrBeast says in his next video?
    By John Herrman
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    The Gen-Z Founders Trying to Get Guys to Stop Watching Porn“Why would you want to nerf your human ability?”
    By Rebecca Jennings
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    The Future of War Is Drones Bombing Data CentersHow the American and Israeli war with Iran took down the internet.
    By John Herrman
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