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Online daters love to hate on Hinge. 10 years in, it’s more popular than ever.

Hinge has tried its darnedest to fix online dating. Is the real problem us?

By Hanna Kozlowska

Silicon Valley’s very masculine year

Ravenous, carnivorous, and totally yoked: How men in tech have evolved.

By Zoë Bernard

The 10 most read Future Perfect stories of 2023

By Bryan Walsh

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The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

Understand how ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E are transforming our world — from text and image generation to how we live and work.

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Apple thinks the next big thing is ... journaling?

By Adam Clark Estes

Chatbot therapy is risky. It’s also not useless.

By A.W. Ohlheiser

We’re all addicted to cheap stuff — and Temu knows it

By Whizy Kim

Starbucks has lost $11 billion market value, and not because of boycotts

By Emily Stewart

We’re still in a fight for survival when it comes to AI safety

By Zvi Mowshowitz

Plagiarism doesn’t need AI to thrive online

By A.W. Ohlheiser

Qubit by qubit, the quantum computers of tomorrow are coming into being

By Bryan Walsh

Local police should not be your go-to source for iPhone safety news

By A.W. Ohlheiser

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Katja Grace wants you to stop thinking of AI as an arms race

By Sigal Samuel

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Paul Christiano and Beth Barnes are trying to make advanced AI honest, and safe

By Dylan Matthews

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Priya Donti is harnessing AI to fight climate change

By Oshan Jarow

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OpenAI’s Jan Leike is trying to ensure superintelligent AI remains on our side

By Kelsey Piper

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Yoshua Bengio helped invent deep learning. Now he’s trying to make it safe.

By Kelsey Piper

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Meredith Whittaker wants to keep your digital conversations private

By Sigal Samuel

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Azeem Azhar is drawing a road map to a better future

By Bryan Walsh

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Alec Stapp and Caleb Watney have a plan for national progress

By Bryan Walsh

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Jerry Chow wants to make quantum computers you can actually count on

By Bryan Walsh

Elon Musk’s attempt to silence his critics will be heard by one of America’s worst judges

By Ian Millhiser

The militarized AI risk that’s bigger than “killer robots”

By Jeffrey Lewis

Want to help animals? Here’s where to donate your money.

By Sigal Samuel and Kenny Torrella

Why it’s important to remember that AI isn’t human

By Raphaël Millière and Charles Rathkopf

What to know about OpenAI’s failed coup

By Sara Morrison and Peter Kafka

OpenAI’s board may have been right to fire Sam Altman — and to rehire him, too

By Sigal Samuel

The race to optimize grief

By Mihika Agarwal

The controversy over TikTok and Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America,” explained

By A.W. Ohlheiser and Li Zhou

Your phone is the key to your digital life. Make sure you know what to do if you lose it.

By Sara Morrison

Is the green texting bubble about to burst?

By Sara Morrison

The secrets Google spilled in court

By Sara Morrison

The best place for product reviews is … Reddit?

By Adam Clark Estes

The new Meta whistleblower adds to an uneven year for online safety laws

By Sara Morrison

What happened to Airbnb?

By Whizy Kim

Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial pulled back the curtain on crypto

By Whizy Kim

The Supreme Court seems stumped by two cases about free speech online

By Ian Millhiser

President Biden’s new plan to regulate AI

By Sara Morrison

Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts

By David Zipper

Google is the default search engine. The big antitrust trial finally revealed how much that costs the company.

By Sara Morrison

Why some Palestinians believe social media companies are suppressing their posts

By A.W. Ohlheiser

The Supreme Court must decide if it wants to own Twitter

By Ian Millhiser