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May 22, 2026
Sundar Pichai Understands Why People Are Anxious About A.I.
After a busy Google I/O, the company’s chief executive sits down with the hosts of “Hard Fork” to discuss the future of Google Search, how he’s using A.I. agents and his advice for college graduates.
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May 22, 2026
Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
“This is the only recent gathering of a large number of people where mentions of A.I. did not produce a large chorus of boos.”
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May 22, 2026
Is the web being summarized to death?
At Google I/O, new features bring AI agents into the inbox and YouTube in ways that further strain the relationship between publishers and platforms
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May 19, 2026
Google's James Manyika is betting that doomers are wrong about AI and jobs
Tasks are getting easier to automate — jobs aren't. What now?
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May 15, 2026
A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express
After several years of dismissing A.I. safety as doomer fear-mongering, parts of the Trump administration now seem ready to support regulation.
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May 15, 2026
Are the Twitter clones in trouble?
A new report says X is resurgent — but it may be missing the bigger picture
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May 13, 2026
The best argument I’ve heard for why AI won't take your job
In the first episode of the Platformer podcast, Box CEO Aaron Levie makes the case that you'll keep your job — but soon, you might not recognize it
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May 8, 2026
Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention School
“It seems every other day I am reading a story about a massive insider trading scandal.”
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May 8, 2026
Did xAI just concede the AI race?
Elon Musk had lots of reasons to make a deal with Anthropic — but he wouldn’t have done it if he were ahead. PLUS: The incredible testimony of Shivon Zilis, and a big new study on school phone bans
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May 6, 2026
The Trump administration's AI doomer moment
A year ago, officials all but sneered at the idea of AI safety. A new frontier model has them reconsidering
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May 1, 2026
OpenAI’s Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor’s Office + Talkie, a pre-1930s LLM
Will the rising tide of A.I. adoption lift all boats?
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May 1, 2026
We may now know what kind of AI bubble this is
Think railroads, not crypto. PLUS: The government can't decide what to do about Mythos, and week one of the OpenAI-Elon Musk trial
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April 28, 2026
How we're shaking up Platformer for the AI era
On newsletters in the age of AI automation. PLUS: Musk and OpenAI in court, and China blocks Meta's Manus acquisition
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April 24, 2026
Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT
The highlights, the lowlights, and how Apple changed in the years since Tim Cook took over as chief executive.
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April 24, 2026
The week that Meta employees became training data
Invasive monitoring and a fresh round of layoffs have workers I spoke to on edge. Is this the future of knowledge work?
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April 22, 2026
Following: Trump says Anthropic is “shaping up”
PLUS: Everyone has feelings about Tim Cook
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April 21, 2026
Why UBI is making a comeback
Tech companies hope a check in the mail will calm the AI backlash — but there are reasons for skepticism
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April 17, 2026
A.I. Backlash Turns Violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot Is Coming
Is anti-A.I. radicalization a growing trend?
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April 14, 2026
Sam Altman’s second thoughts
OpenAI’s CEO is asking the public to lower the temperature on AI. But who turned it up in the first place?
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April 10, 2026
Meta has a new model
Nine months after an expensive overhaul, the company says it's back in the AI race — but the race keeps getting faster
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April 7, 2026
Why Anthropic’s new model has cybersecurity experts rattled
The company says it has built its most dangerous model yet. Can its coalition of internet companies fix the internet before others catch up?
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April 6, 2026
OpenAI is getting weird again
A strange purchase, executive reshuffling and a New Yorker investigation are raising questions ahead of an IPO
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April 3, 2026
The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPT
“The platforms should be absolutely begging Congress to regulate them, because the alternative is they get sued into oblivion by a bunch of law firms.”
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April 2, 2026
Exclusive: Meta has discussed ending funding to the Oversight Board
Shifting priorities and budget pressures could bring an end to the company’s experiment in independent governance, sources say
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April 1, 2026
Can you have child safety and Section 230, too?
The verdicts in last week’s social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it’s possible to regulate platform design while also protecting speech
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March 31, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg is doing content moderation again
Meta’s CEO said he didn't want to be the speech police. Then he texted Elon Musk
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March 25, 2026
Spotify takes on its doppelgänger problem
The company is taking new steps to stop AI impersonation — but across the internet, the problem continues to grow. PLUS: Anthropic in court, and Meta loses in New Mexico
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March 24, 2026
Following: Elon tried to tank Twitter
PLUS: the White House's new AI agenda
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March 20, 2026
‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing
Companies are using A.I. as a reason for layoffs, but the truth may be more complex.
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March 20, 2026
Meta's new support bot probably can't get you your account back
The company's new support chatbot is better than what came before — but still missing the one feature that millions are clamoring for
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