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Why an Air Force colonel — and many other experts — are so worried about the existential risk of AI

Fears about our ability to control powerful AI are growing.

By Kelsey Piper

Do we really need an app for everything?

Not every business needs an app. And yet.

By Emily Stewart

How a carmaker’s mistake created the ultimate internet challenge

By Sara Morrison

Should we know where our friends are at all times?

By Rebecca Jennings

Is Apple’s weird headset the future?

By Peter Kafka

Mark Zuckerberg says the hardest part of Meta’s “year of efficiency” is over

By Shirin Ghaffary

Elon Musk tried a big presidential broadcast event and Twitter broke

By Shirin Ghaffary

Can you safely build something that may kill you?

By Kelsey Piper

The Wild West of streaming TV is here and it’s free

By Sara Morrison

Montana’s TikTok ban — and the legal challenge of it — explained

By Li Zhou

President Biden’s new executive action is all about children and the internet

By Sara Morrison

Do Americans really want “unbiased” news?

By Peter Kafka

9 questions about the attempts to ban TikTok, answered

By Sara Morrison, Christian Paz, and 1 more

Gen Z just wants a stable job

By Rani Molla

Elon Musk won’t stop tweeting his way into trouble

By Shirin Ghaffary

Instagram’s co-founder explains why he’s starting over

By Shirin Ghaffary

The Supreme Court decides not to break the internet

By Ian Millhiser

Crypto is the same fraud, different package

By Emily Stewart

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Our new AI overlord just charmed Congress

By Sara Morrison

Microsoft’s big video game merger just got an extra life

By Sara Morrison

The “return to the office” won’t save the office

By Rani Molla

Who is Linda Yaccarino, Elon Musk’s pick for new Twitter CEO?

By Shirin Ghaffary

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Why Google is reinventing the internet search

By Sara Morrison

Tucker Carlson’s TV-to-Twitter move could actually pay off

By Peter Kafka

Google is putting AI in basically everything, including search

By Shirin Ghaffary

Tucker Carlson’s show is back, and it’s on Twitter

By Sara Morrison and Aja Romano

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Don’t let AI fears of the future overshadow present-day causes

By Kelsey Piper

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Mark Zuckerberg’s not-so-secret plan to join the AI race

By Shirin Ghaffary

Why most car dealers still don’t have any electric vehicles

By Umair Irfan

Please don’t turn to ChatGPT for moral advice. Yet.

By Sigal Samuel

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The promise and peril of AI, according to 5 experts

By Peter Kafka

You may never eat inside a fast food restaurant again

By Whizy Kim

Your boss is obsessed with productivity without knowing what it means

By Rani Molla

Mind-reading technology has arrived

By Sigal Samuel
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An AI artist explains his workflow

By Phil Edwards

Why digital media is melting down

By Peter Kafka

Smaller, cheaper, safer: The next generation of nuclear power, explained

By Umair Irfan

How Saudi money returned to Silicon Valley

By Jonathan Guyer

What is Bluesky, and why is everyone on Twitter talking about it?

By Shirin Ghaffary

An Amazon union just won a $30 an hour contract

By Rani Molla

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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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What could actually kill us all?

By Kelsey Piper