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Anthropic Doesn’t Decide Our Military’s Rules of Engagement
Tech companies should focus on protecting our soldiers, not fighting the Pentagon.
Ben Van Roo
Inside the Online Anti-Indian Hate Factory
A study traces the explosion of anti-Indian rhetoric on social media, including 24,000 posts that were viewed over 300 million times.
Tanner Nau
Alexa, Stop Recording Me
A new anti-surveillance device blew up on social media, promising to stop digital recorders in their tracks. But does it actually work?
Josh Code
Taiwan Can Rescue the World from China
Taiwanese companies ignited China’s economic miracle. Now they can do it for the rest of the world.
Patrick McGee
How Reality Destroyed Europe’s Green Energy Dreams
Just a few years ago, European economies were united in pushing for green energy at any cost—what changed?
Bjorn Lomborg
Why AI (Probably) Won’t Take Your Job
Doomsayers and tech accelerationists miss how automation makes us richer.
Charles Fain Lehman
How Instagram Broke Its Promise to Protect Teens
Newly unsealed court documents show Meta executives scrambling to save face: ‘We’re exposed with nowhere to hide.’
Frannie Block and Maya Sulkin
Will AI Doom Us All? The Market Can't Decide
The Citrini memo, a viral essay, terrified investors who can’t decide if AI means human doom or salvation.
Bethany McLean
Mark Zuckerberg’s Courtroom Reckoning
In a Los Angeles courtroom, he tried to combat claims that Meta wants to keep teens chained to its apps.
Frannie Block and Maya Sulkin
Rebuilding the American Dream, One Row House at a Time
Many families want to live in cities but can’t afford to buy a home. Can a SpaceX-inspired start-up change that?
Tanner Nau
Can You Really Be ‘Addicted’ to Social Media?
The science of addiction is not as simple as Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok’s legal opponents want you to think.
Sally Satel
Are We at an AI Precipice?
A viral essay argues AI is about to make most human work obsolete. We asked Noah Smith, Andrew Yang, Tyler Cowen, Gary Marcus, and others to weigh in.
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