Meta AI, ChatGPT, and the dangers of being glazed and confused
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The AIs are trying too hard to be your friend
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Meta has a chatbot problem
Celebrities, minors, and sexually explicit chats are a dangerous combination — a lesson the company is determined to learn the hard way
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The Oversight Board gives Meta a pass on anti-trans posts
The beleaguered body’s influence has been waning — and now its independence may be, too
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Google just helped the government’s case against it
Revelations that the company pursued exclusive deals for Gemini are giving the government fresh ammunition just as the trial heats up
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Google may be on the brink of a breakup
After two blistering losses in court, a new era for the internet may be coming into view
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Meta can't figure out what to do about Facebook
And other revelations from day two of Meta's antitrust trial. PLUS: the OpenAI social network
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Meta’s antitrust trial begins
More than four years after it was first filed, the government's case is only getting harder to prove
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The platforms cash in their chips with Trump
From Meta to Nvidia, tech CEOs are paying the president to get the outcomes they want — and it's working
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Meta gets rebuked over benchmark gaming
"Llama con" just got a whole new meeting
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Meta's Llama drama
Seemingly caught gaming a key benchmark, and defending allegations it taught to the test, Meta sees a rocky launch for its latest AI model
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TikTok’s fate could be decided by tariffs
Trump is holding out ByteDance's app as a bargaining chip. Will China take the bait?
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How AI bots are suffocating Wikipedia
Scrapers caused the online encyclopedia's bandwidth to increase by 50 percent last year — and its plan to fight back may not be enough
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We finally know why Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI
A new book offers the most thorough explanation to date. Would it have mattered if we knew at the time?
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People are using AI to learn more
Exclusive data from Anthropic about Claude usage finds that AI is both automating and augmenting human labor — and people are increasingly using it to educate themselves
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These founders realized their bot was unsafe — and actually shut it down
A parable about responsibility in the AI age
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How chatbots could spark the next big mental health crisis
New research from OpenAI shows that heavy chatbot usage is correlated with loneliness and reduced socialization. Will AI companies learn from social networks' mistakes?
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America crafts an AI action plan
Tech platforms got a rare opportunity to present President Trump with a wishlist — and they're using DeepSeek's success to push for controversial policies
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Chatbots have started to reshape the web
New data from Adobe offers evidence for a big shift away from traditional search engines. Will the internet's vast public commons survive?
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How Meta’s take on Community Notes misses the mark
Crowdsourced moderation is better than nothing — but how much better remains an open question
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There are two TikToks now
One has been banned by the federal government and awaits a forced sale. The other keeps shipping
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Manus of the hour
What the hype cycle around a new Chinese AI model tells us about the state of competition in agents
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• Casey Newton
Google's new AI Mode is a preview of the future of search
The next phase of AI's takeover of search offers plenty of links to the web — but will anyone click?
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How AI stole Chegg's homework
For companies that rely on Google, the company's collapse offers a warning
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Early thoughts on GPT-4.5
PLUS: What AI policy is for
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Apple's clever answer to child safety concerns
In creating an age assurance API, the company raises hopes that platforms can keep kids safer without sacrificing everyone else's privacy
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Why app stores are resisting a good idea to make kids safer online
Making app stores verify kids' ages could save everyone a lot of grief — but some worry it will introduce new risks
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Google gives up on data voids
The company once warned users when they might be seeing low-quality results — but weeks before the 2024 election, the feature was quietly turned off
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How Meta's concessions to the right may have backfired
A new inquiry from the Federal Trade Commission suggests that apologizing for "censorship" may have only emboldened the company's conservative critics
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There are probably too many AI companies now
Everyone has a model. Almost no one has a business
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The chatbots are getting more adult
As content moderation falls out of favor, OpenAI says it will loosen up