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America Can’t Afford an AI Recession
AI investments are driving the economy. That’s a dangerous tightrope.
Artificial Intelligence
The dawn of a new machine age.
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The Election Lies Are Already Starting on X
No one is ready for what Elon Musk’s platform could look like on Tuesday.
He Wanted to Save Children. Instead, He Unleashed Chaos.
The American tragedy of Edgar Maddison Welch
The Epstein-Pizzagate Connection
The seminal conspiracy theory of the Trump era gets a facelift 10 years later.
@Grok, Did Venezuela ‘Deserve It’?
The information war will be fought through chatbots.
Elon Musk’s Pornography Machine
On X, sexual harassment and perhaps even child abuse are the latest memes.
The People Who Marry Chatbots
A growing community is building a life with large language models.
The Problem With Letting AI Do the Grunt Work
Artificial intelligence is destroying the career ladder for aspiring artists.
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ChatGPT Needs More Cowbell
AI struggles to write a good jingle.
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AI Is Democratizing Music. Unfortunately.
The emerging technology is warping the record industry in all sorts of strange—and foreboding—ways.
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The View From Inside the AI Bubble
Secret parties, lavish buffets, and talks of annihilation at one of the largest AI-research conferences
I Am Time Magazine’s Person of the Year
So are you. Congrats!
OpenAI Is in Trouble
The start-up is falling behind in the AI race.