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February 24, 2026
The shallow impact of India’s AI summit
The US government still can’t think beyond “winning.” The rest of the world is still thinking too small
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February 20, 2026
The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express
This would be an unprecedented escalation against a U.S. company.
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February 20, 2026
The infinite scroll goes on trial
Testifying before a jury in LA, Mark Zuckerberg makes the case that platform design is about free expression. But the walls are closing in on Section 230
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February 17, 2026
Meta’s face turn
In the company’s latest policy reversal under Trump 2.0, the facial recognition system it blew up in 2021 may be poised for a return
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February 13, 2026
‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good Thing
“I do think we are reaching an inflection point in people’s feelings and senses about A.I. and where it’s going.”
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February 13, 2026
Why GPT-4o had to go
As OpenAI sunsets its most dangerous model, the tensions it exposed remain as tricky as ever. PLUS: Elon's space catapult, and OpenAI vs. Anthropic
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February 11, 2026
Exclusive: OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team
Joshua Achiam will become the company's chief futurist
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February 10, 2026
Why the infinite-scroll childhood may be coming to an end
A lawsuit that begins in LA this week, along with a new investigation into TikTok by the European Commission, could change social apps forever. PLUS: AI ads at the Super Bowl and in ChatGPT
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February 6, 2026
Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltbook Creator
“A very valuable and profitable company in SpaceX has acquired a cash furnace named xAI.”
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February 4, 2026
Moltbook Mania Explained
Is this the year the internet changes forever?
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February 4, 2026
How a new AI tool fixed my single biggest problem with Spotify
Spotify’s Molly Holder on the power of prompted playlists. PLUS: Meta is testing a standalone Vibes app
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February 3, 2026
Five ways of thinking about Moltbook
What a social network for AI agents tells us about the future. PLUS: Elon consolidates the X empire
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January 30, 2026
Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatGPT
In Minneapolis, it has become a battle of phone versus phone.
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January 30, 2026
Falling in and out of love with Moltbot
Maybe someday you’ll have a genie in your laptop working for you 24/7. Today is not that day
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January 28, 2026
What a big study of teens says about social media — and what it can’t
The “moral panic” framing misses how platforms actually harm kids. PLUS: Newsom investigates TikTok over Trump, and the Clawdbot frenzy
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January 27, 2026
When murder becomes a meme
Truth and terror in Minneapolis. PLUS: TikTok conspiracy theories, and Dario Amodei's Oppenheimer moment
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January 23, 2026
The AI productivity paradox
Managers say it makes them more productive. Workers don't. What gives?
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January 21, 2026
Meta’s scam problem, UK edition
Plus: Writers react to Claude Code for writers; Elon Musk vs. OpenAI; and ChatGPT gets ads
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January 16, 2026
Claude Code for writers
Five useful things I’ve built so far. Plus: Grok caves, and Thinking Machines implodes
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January 14, 2026
What I learned while cloning my own voice
Announcing Platformer+, a new way to listen to our columns
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January 13, 2026
Grok gets blocked
More than a week into a deepfake scandal, a handful of foreign governments have found the strength to do what Apple, Google, and the United States will not
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January 9, 2026
The project that turned me into a Claude Code believer
I feel great about the website I’m building — and terrible for professional website builders. PLUS: Who will stop Grok? And ChatGPT will see you now
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January 6, 2026
Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit
A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5
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December 19, 2025
11 predictions for 2026
PLUS: What I got right (and wrong) about 2025
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December 17, 2025
Spotify is part of the trade war now
The US is retaliating against the EU after it fined X — and now some of Europe's biggest companies are caught in the crossfire
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December 16, 2025
Meta's scam problem may trigger a legal reckoning
A fresh investigation reveals the scope of Meta's problem in China. Will a pending court case force the company to crack down — or destroy Section 230?
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