DeepSeek is bad for Silicon Valley. But it might be great for you.
When it comes to AI, I’d consider myself a casual user and a curious one. It’s been creeping into my ...
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OpenAI’s new anti-jobs program
On Tuesday, I was thinking I might write a story about the implications of the Trump administration’s repeal of the ...
It’s not conspiratorial to be worried about social media’s rightward swing
Many Instagram users this week had their scrolling interrupted by the bearded visage of our newly elected Vice President JD ...
Trump’s attack on EVs is just theater — so far
As President Donald Trump’s first week in office comes to a close, his biggest accomplishments are things many of us ...
Trump coin: Why the crypto industry is mad at the president
Three days before taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump launched his own crypto asset: $TRUMP. By the eve ...
The bright side of TikTok’s downfall
The TikTok ban seems imminent. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that would spell the end of TikTok ...
It’s getting harder to measure just how good AI is getting
Toward the end of 2024, I offered a take on all the talk about whether AI’s “scaling laws” were hitting ...
TikTok: The most exciting, and controversial, social media app on the planet
TikTok has only been around in the US since August 2018, but it’s become the defining social media app of ...
Has TikTok made us better? Or much, much worse?
For years, murmurs of a US TikTok ban have left users and creators furious and terrified that a social media ...
I visited our tech future. It’s not actually a terrible place.
LAS VEGAS — When I stepped on the showroom floor in Las Vegas at CES, the largest tech industry trade ...
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