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April 24, 2026
Luke Barnes
The AI Industry Is Discovering That the Public Hates It
If there was any doubt over the brewing public backlash to this technology, the last few weeks have erased it.
April 21, 2026
Finn Hartnett
Florida Criminally Investigating ChatGPT Over Role in School Shooting
The man accused of killing two people at Florida State University in 2025 allegedly exchanged messages with OpenAI’s chatbot before the attack.
April 16, 2026
Timothy Noah
Let’s Replace All Corporate Chiefs With AI
Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Jim VandeHei are halfway there already. Let’s follow that train of thought.
April 14, 2026
Kate Aronoff
Bombs and Porn Are Bad Reasons to Build More Data Centers
Is this big AI push supposed to help the U.S. kill more Iranian kids? To help school shooters kill kids at home? Or just to fill the internet with rubbish? We need better answers to this question.
March 24, 2026
Luke Barnes
AI Chatbots Are Unleashing Violence Among Kids
With Big Tech writing its own rules, the absence of adequate safety regulations has already led to harrowing examples of real-world harm.
March 3, 2026
Michael Serazio
AI Is Going to Revolutionize Advertising in the Worst Imaginable Way
OpenAI has started rolling out conventional ads in ChatGPT. It won’t stop there.
February 16, 2026
Edith Olmsted
The Pentagon Just Sent a Terrifying Message to AI Companies
It warned Anthropic it will “pay a price” if it continues to demand its products have safeguards.
November 19, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Jeffrey Epstein Emails Finally Catch Up to Larry Summers
Larry Summers has stepped down from the OpenAI board, as Harvard University opens up an investigation.
November 12, 2025
Aaron Regunberg
Americans Hate AI. Will the Democrats Join Them?
There’s widespread anger at the AI industry—and last week’s elections showed that it’s a winning issue.
May 29, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Elon Musk Tried to Sabotage a Trump Deal With a Rival Company
Elon Musk blatantly used his proximity to Donald Trump to boost his own businesses.
January 22, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
President Elon Musk Has Already Trashed Trump’s Newest Initiative
Donald Trump announced a massive new AI initiative.
December 27, 2024
Matt Ford
How the Silicon Valley Robber Barons’ New Tech Bubble Won 2024
The two major techbro obsessions—crypto and AI—have delivered mostly scams and hype. But this year, they managed to buy themselves a federal government.
May 8, 2024
Jacob Silverman
The Inventor of the Chatbot Tried to Warn Us About A.I.
Joseph Weizenbaum’s underrated book “Computer Power and Human Reason” cautioned against confusing people with machines.
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