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

These are the most effective charities for reducing animal suffering.

By Sigal Samuel and Kenny Torrella

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

ChatGPT can talk like a person. You shouldn’t think of it as one.

By Raphaël Millière and Charles Rathkopf

What to know about OpenAI’s failed coup

By Sara Morrison and Peter Kafka

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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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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

Elon Musk didn’t kill Twitter

By Peter Kafka

Why I let an AI chatbot train on my book

By Bryan Walsh

Why Apple’s weather app is so bad

By Alex Abad-Santos

Don’t blame social media for the fog of war

By Peter Kafka

Net neutrality is back, but it’s not what you think

By Sara Morrison

Don’t believe everything you see and hear about Israel and Palestine

By A.W. Ohlheiser

How AI will shape our children’s future

By Kelsey Piper

Elon Musk’s Israel disinformation investigation, explained

By A.W. Ohlheiser

Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way?

By Sigal Samuel

Call of Duty will stay on PlayStation if Microsoft and Activision merge

By Sara Morrison

We’re in a new Gilded Age. What did we learn from the last one?

By Sara Morrison

The chaotic and cinematic MGM casino hack, explained

By Sara Morrison

How TikTok profits off dangerous health trends

By A.W. Ohlheiser

9 questions about the government’s effort to break up Amazon

By Sara Morrison and A.W. Ohlheiser

The government’s case to break up Amazon, explained

By Sara Morrison

More evidence the streaming wars are (kinda) over: You can watch Dune on Netflix

By Peter Kafka

Turns out the government can fine you for trashing space

By Sara Morrison

The messy art of posting through it

By Allie Volpe

The anatomy of a Facebook account heist

By Amanda Florian

The Supreme Court showdown over social media “censorship,” explained

By Ian Millhiser

Twitter’s CEO had a wild, combative appearance at the Code conference

By Peter Kafka

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The $1 billion gamble to ensure AI doesn’t destroy humanity

By Dylan Matthews