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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
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
Christopher Caldwell: Here Comes the AI Backlash
Donald Trump is all in on the transformative technology. The American people? Not so much.
Christopher Caldwell
I Got Surgery to Restore My Hearing. I Regret It.
Speech-to-text and AI-assisted hearing aids are erasing the line between deaf and hearing.
Richard Vigilante
A Fed Chair the Markets Will Love
They say the job of the Fed is to take the punch bowl away when the market gets crazy. But if Kevin Hassett replaces Jerome Powell next year, expect him…
Mark Gimein
Jonathan Haidt: The Devil’s Plan to Ruin the Next Generation
I asked ChatGPT how it would destroy America’s youth. Its answers were unsettling—and all too familiar.
Jonathan Haidt
Wall Street’s AI Obsession Makes Perfect Sense
As trillions flow into AI giants like Nvidia and Microsoft, market concentration isn’t a sign of fragility—it’s proof that the U.S. economy can reinvent…
Tyler Cowen
America Needs to Make Its Own Chips. James Proud Says He Knows How.
A Silicon Valley start-up that was a closely kept secret until today claims it has found a way to make semiconductors faster and more cheaply in the…
Sean Fischer
Palmer Luckey and the Future of American Power
Bari Weiss and Palmer Luckey sit down for a sweeping conversation about his falling-out with Mark Zuckerberg, AI defense weapons, and why America lost…
Bari Weiss
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Is the Internet Too Fragile?
After the AWS outage, Mehdi Daoudi, the CEO of internet performance monitoring company Catchpoint, says that we need to start taking the risks of our…
Tanner Nau
The Return of the Luddites
America and Europe used to worship innovation. Now we’re afraid of it. What happens when a civilization stops believing in progress?
Noah Smith
Who Cares If AI Is a Bubble?
When the AI bubble bursts, investors will undoubtedly get burned. But if AI is as important as people think it is, it will have been worth it.
Peter Coy
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