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Chris Stokel-Walker

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The biggest tech story of the midterms might be Democrats’ attorney general wins

With victories in Texas, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin, Democrats could reshape the legal battles determining the industry’s future.

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Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Hackers hijacked a Claude Code extension, exposing yet another new AI security risk

A malicious extension on Cursor’s marketplace attempted to give hackers persistent access to developers’ computers, raising concerns about the...

30.10.2026 10

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Anthropic’s IPO filing is the start of the put-up-or-shut-up era of AI

Big bubble or permanently transformative technology? An eye-popping IPO suggests we’re about to find out.

26.10.2026 10

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

AI companies say they want to give billions away. Will they actually do it?

Silicon Valley’s biggest names are making eye-watering philanthropic pledges, raising questions about their motivations and how much money will...

23.10.2026 5

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Big Tech used AI to take what it wanted. Now consumers are fighting back, too

After years of being nickel-and-dimed by tech companies, consumers are using AI to break their rules and circumvent restrictions.

15.10.2026 20

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Apple’s HomeView is nearly a decade late. That might not matter

Amazon and Google have been selling smart displays for years. But Apple is betting that its familiar combination of sleek design and clever...

13.10.2026 10

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

It’s not ‘AI,’ and it’s not ‘superintelligence.’ So, what is it?

President Trump’s obsession with rebranding artificial intelligence is drudging up a decades-long debate about how to best describe the technology.

10.10.2026 30

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Donald Trump is launching a new AI task force. Here’s who he’ll have to keep happy

The president has to tread a fine line among competing factions as he pursues American AI supremacy. Can he pull it off?

07.10.2026 10

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

AI agents can now erase the evidence of what they’ve done

New research finds that popular AI agents can alter or delete their own activity logs, making it much harder to figure out what happened when...

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Chris Stokel-Walker

Google is taking Elon Musk’s space data center idea seriously

Project Suncatcher is sending AI hardware into orbit. The technical hurdles are enormous, but researchers say the economics may eventually make sense.

01.10.2026 10

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

The smartest people in the world are automating themselves into obsolescence—and loving it

Elite knowledge workers explain how training AI models for the likes of Turing and Mercor is the most exciting intellectual challenge of their...

01.10.2026 40

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Trump’s new AI chatbot is surprisingly good. But it doesn’t fix government

America.gov can help users navigate federal websites and find services. The harder problem is making those services themselves easier to use.

30.09.2026 40

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Chris Stokel-Walker

AI’s next big legal battle is over product liability

A growing number of lawsuits argue that chatbot makers should be held responsible not just for their outputs, but for how their products are designed.

28.09.2026 20

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Trump is arguing about AI’s name as China is writing the rules

The contrast between the two countries’ public AI agendas says a lot about the larger fight over who gets to shape the technology’s future.

23.09.2026 20

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Chris Stokel-Walker

AI needs its own accident investigators

As models act more autonomously, a growing group of researchers wants independent experts to investigate when they go off the rails.

22.09.2026 20

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Chris Stokel-Walker

How Nvidia’s Hugging Face deal would reshape the open AI ecosystem

Hugging Face has become the industry’s de facto hub for open models. Developers are watching what happens if the dominant AI chipmaker takes control.

27.08.2026 20

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

AI is making your gadgets more expensive and less powerful

A global memory crunch is forcing hardware makers to raise prices, cut components, or both.

27.08.2026 10

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

First social media came after teens. Now AI is doing the same thing

A major lawsuit against Meta hit the same week OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens. Why do stronger protections so often arrive only after mass...

21.08.2026 40

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Why we love to hate Flock

The license plate reader company has become a lightning rod for surveillance concerns. But getting rid of Flock doesn’t necessarily get rid of the...

14.08.2026 20

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Chris Stokel-Walker

AI crawlers from Meta and Alibaba almost destroyed a volunteer-run LGBT history archive

The site’s founder says bots linked to major tech companies drove up his hosting costs and forced him to spend nights learning how to keep them out.

13.08.2026 20

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

A Former Starbucks Employee Met His Co-Founder in a Mosh Pit. Their Coffee Brand Became a $900 Million Empire

10.08.2026 20

Inc.com

Chris Stokel-Walker

Zillow’s Founder Built 3 Iconic Companies by Asking 1 Simple Question

07.08.2026 20

Inc.com

Chris Stokel-Walker

Yelp’s First Product Was a Flop. Then Users Found 1 Hidden Link That Changed Everything

06.08.2026 20

Inc.com

Chris Stokel-Walker

Trump’s AI investments are turning Washington into a VC firm

The administration is taking equity stakes in chip, quantum, and AI companies.

05.08.2026 20

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Why the Clif Bar Founder’s Smartest Move Was Walking Away From a $120 Million Payday

05.08.2026 20

Inc.com

Chris Stokel-Walker

Where are Elon Musk’s former DOGE staffers now?

The key figures behind DOGE have moved into federal agencies, Republican politics, and a new wave of AI and defense startups.

04.08.2026 20

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Yvon Chouinard Was Destroying the Mountains He Loved. He Made 1 Painful Decision That Built the Patagonia Empire

04.08.2026 20

Inc.com

Chris Stokel-Walker

Before LinkedIn Had 1.3 Billion Users, It Had 1 Very Awkward Problem

03.08.2026 20

Inc.com

Chris Stokel-Walker

The White House is fixated on China copying U.S. AI. Experts say that’s the wrong threat

As American models display increasingly autonomous behavior, officials are focusing on “distillation,” a common industry practice that critics say...

03.08.2026 20

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Under Armour’s Founder Once Bet His Last $2,000 in Atlantic City. Now He’s Making an Even Bigger Bet on the Brand’s Comeback

31.07.2026 30

Inc.com

Chris Stokel-Walker

How Fitbit Went From Inc. 5000 Star to a $2.1 Billion Google Acquisition

How Fitbit Went From Inc. 5000 Star to a $2.1 Billion Google Acquisition Fitbit started with a simple pixelated flower that rewarded movement. Less...

30.07.2026 20

Inc.com

Chris Stokel-Walker

She Wanted to Teach Kids History. Her Idea Became a $700 Million Business

29.07.2026 20

Inc.com

Chris Stokel-Walker

Claude users’ shared conversations were showing up in Google searches

Thousands of chats, some containing potentially sensitive information, were indexed after users published shareable links that they may not have...

28.07.2026 30

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Kimi K3 is exposing cracks in Trump’s AI coalition

The Chinese model’s rise has ignited a fight over open-source AI and whether Washington should protect America’s frontier labs.

22.07.2026 20

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Trump’s proposed ban on Kimi and other Chinese AI models could strengthen Beijing’s hand

The U.S. risks alienating countries that are uneasy about relying on products controlled by a small number of American AI companies.

21.07.2026 20

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Is China replacing the U.S. as the world’s AI touchpoint thanks to Kimi K3?

Social media has been ablaze with eye-popping demonstrations of the model’s prowess.

20.07.2026 30

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

How AI could unleash a flood of zero-day vulnerabilities

CrowdStrike president Mike Sentonas warns that frontier models may sharply reduce the time between a software flaw’s discovery and its exploitation,...

16.07.2026 40

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Physical media is dying. So is the idea that you own what you buy

Sony’s digital-only PlayStation points to a weaker bargain for consumers.

06.07.2026 30

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Our interest in AI slop is hitting a ceiling

A new analysis of the creative economy, published in the online repository arXiv and part of a new book, suggests AI-generated content may now account...

06.07.2026 50

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Amazon’s big Prime Day pitch is its AI assistant. Is it working?

As Amazon pushes Rufus and Alexa deeper into online shopping, early data suggests AI is driving sales. But shoppers may be using the tools more to...

25.06.2026 40

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

One fake web page can be enough to trick AI shopping recommendations

A single fake web page might be enough to make an AI system recommend a product that does not exist.

23.06.2026 30

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Buzzy tech IPOs are overwhelming retail trading platforms

Retail investors reportedly requested $100 billion in shares. But as trading platforms strained under demand, many mom-and-pop buyers were allocated...

15.06.2026 30

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Anthropic’s new AI model is powerful, dazzling—and about to get really expensive

Fable is available to subscribers for now. But its upcoming shift to API-only access shows how quickly frontier AI is moving from ‘all you can...

11.06.2026 20

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

The AI bill is coming due. Businesses are learning tokens aren’t free

Companies rushed to put AI tools in employees’ hands. Now surprise usage costs are forcing them to ask what all those prompts are actually worth.

10.06.2026 30

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Synthetic data is everywhere, but is it any good?

Pollsters and market researchers are using synthetic respondents to fill in for real people. Critics worry the practice could turn machine-made...

05.06.2026 30

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

The era of ‘good enough’ AI has arrived

As frontier AI models get pricier, cheaper and locally hosted alternatives are becoming powerful enough for most users.

21.05.2026 20

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

YouTube may be building different political realities for men and women

A new study found the platform’s recommendation algorithm steers users toward sharply different political content based on inferred gender.

20.05.2026 30

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

The OpenAI lawsuit became a master class in what not to put in writing

As private messages from Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, and other tech leaders spilled into public view, the trial underscored a growing reality of...

19.05.2026 30

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

How the Spotify mafia took over Sweden’s tech scene

Former Spotify employees now run some of Sweden’s most ambitious startups and venture firms, turning the music-streaming giant into the country’s...

18.05.2026 40

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker

Why Jensen Huang joined Trump’s high-stakes China summit at the last minute

The Nvidia CEO’s late addition to Trump’s Beijing delegation underscores how central compute power has become to the two countries’ AI rivalry.

13.05.2026 30

Fast Company

Chris Stokel-Walker