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    Down and Out in the App StoreIs getting paid to scroll a symptom of the economy or its entire future?
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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.
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    The Director Caught in the AI-Slop CrosshairsRomain Gavras’s “Storm” was the kind of music video AI couldn’t fake. Then came an editing tool seemingly custom-made to replicate it into infinity.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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    The AI Assistant Wars Are ComingEveryone in tech wants to build you a personal agent.
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    The Chatbots Are Pivoting to VideoAI companies have a new favorite source material.
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    Why Everyone’s Talking About the AI ApocalypseThe AI-safety people finally have the public’s attention. Now what?
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    New From Apple: Extremely Pricey iPhones and a Watch That EavesdropsSome curious choices were made in Cupertino.
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    Meta’s ReckoningLike its users, the company is stuck in an endless, unhappy doomscroll.
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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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    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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    Hey, Your AI Is ShowingDetectors, watermarks, and slop-reporting buttons: What happens when AI can no longer hide?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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    The Tech Industry Would Once Again Like You to Please Try a Face ComputerDespite a dismal history, smartglasses are back.
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    Trump Is Trying to Show Anthropic Who’s in ChargeAnthropic says it wants oversight. It’s getting something else.
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    Apple’s Big AI Pitch: What If Siri Actually Did Something?No, for real this time, it promises.
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    Corporate America Is Experiencing AI Sticker ShockMany companies went all-in on using AI. Then they got the bill.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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    Does Your Kid Have iPad Rages?For some children, turning off a screen leads to a different breed of tantrum — one so intense it’s wrecking their parents’ lives.
    By Liz Krieger
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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.
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    The SpaceX IPO Reveals What Really Happened to TwitterWhere is the X in SpaceX?
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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.
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    Worried About AI? Here, Have Some AI.AI companies keep creating problems only they can solve.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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    My Adventures With ‘The AI That Actually Does Things’OpenClaw agents have been touted as the most important software product ever. I have some questions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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