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Tesla’s Robotaxi Bait and Switch
Elon Musk called self-driving cars a ‘solved problem’ 10 years ago. So how come he’s still working on it?
Patrick McGee
Why Trump’s Credit-Card Crackdown Will Backfire
Banks will play it safe if they are forced to cap interest rates, leaving most people with no credit cards at all.
Joe Nocera
AI Took Control of My Life and I Love It
I gave it my passwords, my calendar, and my money. It gave me my life back.
Molly Cantillon
Wikipedia Editors Are Helping Iran Rewrite History
An investigation into Wikipedia editing patterns reveals a yearslong, coordinated campaign to sanitize the Islamic Republic’s human rights record.
Ashley Rindsberg
Trump Heads to Davos to Take Greenland
Threatened with a catastrophic trade war, Europe is likely to blink.
Kenneth Rogoff
Are Insiders Making a Killing on Polymarket?
A $400,000 payout on a bet anticipating Maduro’s capture puts prediction markets under a spotlight.
Maya Sulkin
Eric Adams’ Cryptocurrency Made No Sense. That Was the Point.
Meme coins are supposed to make you feel dumb.
Mark Gimein
China’s Robots vs. America’s Chatbots
The U.S. could spend a trillion dollars on data centers and still lose the real AI war.
Patrick McGee
Two Drinks with . . . the Youngest Female Self-Made Billionaire
Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara has a net worth of $1.3 billion. She couldn’t care less.
Maya Sulkin
A Flashing Warning for the Economy
As the U.S. becomes a source of disorder, investors turn to silver and gold.
Tyler Cowen
Is Social Media the New Big Tobacco?
A sprawling lawsuit alleges—with revealing internal documents—that the firms behind TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and other platforms knowingly fueled a…
Maya Sulkin and Frannie Block
Man over Machine: Why AI Firms Are Hiring Writers
AI may eventually render writers obsolete, but for now, tech companies prefer man-made words to chatbots.
Maya Sulkin
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