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Why YouTube Should Cut Off Its Thumbnails

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Why YouTube Should Cut Off Its Thumbnails

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Luigi Mangione’s Full Story Isn’t Online

11.12.2024 6

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Luigi Mangione’s Full Story Isn’t Online

11.12.2024 10

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Sam Altman’s Mixed Signals

10.12.2024 10

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Sam Altman’s Mixed Signals

10.12.2024 10

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Democrats Are Leaving X. But X Left Them First.

Are Democrats facing an “existential crisis?” About the future of the party, yeah. Around the prospect of an emboldened second Trump...

05.12.2024 4

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Democrats Are Leaving X. But X Left Them First.

Are Democrats facing an “existential crisis?” About the future of the party, yeah. Around the prospect of an emboldened second Trump...

05.12.2024 20

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How Podcasting Became the New TV

In 2024, podcasts are about as mainstream as media gets. Sure, their audiences are hugely fragmented and largely invisible to one another — the...

24.11.2024 7

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How Podcasting Became the New TV

In 2024, podcasts are about as mainstream as media gets. Sure, their audiences are hugely fragmented and largely invisible to one another — the...

23.11.2024 9

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Amazon’s New Temu Knockoff Misses Something Essential

In less than a decade, Chinese e-commerce sites have remade American shopping. A recent analysis by Salesforce found that apps such as Temu, Shein,...

21.11.2024 6

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Amazon’s New Temu Knockoff Misses Something Essential

In less than a decade, Chinese e-commerce sites have remade American shopping. A recent analysis by Salesforce found that apps such as Temu, Shein,...

21.11.2024 20

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Why the Government’s Google Breakup Plan Is Such a Big Deal

In August, the Justice Department prevailed in its antitrust case against Google, with a federal judge ruling that the search company is “a...

20.11.2024 30

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Why the Government’s Google Breakup Plan Is Such a Big Deal

In August, the Department of Justice prevailed in its antitrust case against Google, with a federal judge ruling that the search company is “a...

19.11.2024 4

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TikTok’s Best Shot at Survival: The Guy Who Tried to Ban It

Donald Trump has made plenty of promises and threats about what might happen when he returns to office in January, most of which are continuations...

13.11.2024 20

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TikTok’s Best Shot at Survival: The Guy Who Tried to Ban It

Donald Trump has made plenty of promises and threats about what might happen when he returns to office in January, most of which are continuations...

13.11.2024 20

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Who Needs an AI Doppelganger?

Earlier this year, Meta demonstrated a new feature it had been working on for Instagram: AI doppelgangers that can chat or even speak on behalf of...

10.11.2024 7

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Who Needs an AI Doppelganger?

Earlier this year, Meta demonstrated a new feature it had been working on for Instagram: AI doppelgangers that can chat or even speak on behalf of...

10.11.2024 4

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Big Tech Enters Its Loyalty Era

Elon Musk, whose empire of companies already holds billions of dollars in government contracts, donated his money, time, reputation, and social-media...

08.11.2024 5

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Big Tech’s Loyalty Era

Elon Musk, whose empire of companies already holds billions of dollars in government contracts, donated his money, time, reputation, and social-media...

08.11.2024 10

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Democrats Are Massively Outspending the GOP on Social Media

Among the many strange and unexpected dynamics of the 2024 election cycle, one stands out as both under-recognized and under-explained: On social...

02.11.2024 5

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Democrats Are Massively Outspending Republicans on Social Media

Among the many strange and unexpected dynamics of the 2024 election cycle, one stands out as both under-recognized and under-explained: On social...

02.11.2024 10

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Why Reddit Is Blowing Up

Reddit’s first year as a publicly traded firm is going great. The company, which is nearly 20 years old, shared an extremely strong earnings report...

01.11.2024 4

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Why Reddit Is Blowing Up

31.10.2024 4

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Polymarket Loves Trump. But Is It Just About the Vibes?

Election betting has well and truly broken through in the 2024 campaign. Mainstream publications now cite odds alongside polls and other election...

29.10.2024 20

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Election Betting Markets Are About Vibes, Too

Election betting has well and truly broken through in the 2024 campaign. Mainstream publications now cite odds alongside polls and other election...

29.10.2024 20

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The Election Betting Markets Are All About Vibes, Too

Election betting has well and truly broken through in the 2024 campaign. Mainstream publications now cite odds alongside polls and other election...

29.10.2024 10

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The Rise of the Self-Clicking Computer

AI start-up Anthropic, creator of popular chatbot Claude, announced a new feature this week called “computer use,” which is a set of tools “that...

24.10.2024 6

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The Rise of the Self-Clicking Computer

AI start-up Anthropic, creator of popular chatbot Claude, announced a new feature this week called “computer use,” which is a set of tools “that...

24.10.2024 10

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Why Meta Is Filling Your Feeds With Bots

22.10.2024 8

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Get Ready for a Lot More Bots on Social Media

22.10.2024 4

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Microsoft Has an OpenAI Problem

In pure organizational terms, OpenAI is a weird entity. It started as a nonprofit, raising more than $100 million dollars to spend on foundational AI...

20.10.2024 10

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Microsoft Has an OpenAI Problem

In pure organizational terms, OpenAI is a weird entity. It started as a nonprofit, raising more than $100 million dollars to spend on foundational AI...

20.10.2024 6

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What If Google’s Biggest Problem Isn’t AI?

This month, Google dropped a few hints about how its most important and lucrative product, Search, will be changing in the coming months. Earlier this...

14.10.2024 5

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What If Google’s Biggest Problem Isn’t AI?

This month, Google dropped a few hints about how its most important and lucrative product, Search, will be changing in the coming months. Earlier this...

14.10.2024 4

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Is Reddit the Future of Crisis Communications?

Let’s say you represent the most powerful government on Earth and would like to convey some information to the citizens of your country in a moment...

13.10.2024 8

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Is Reddit the Future of Crisis Communications?

Let’s say you represent the most powerful government on Earth and would like to convey some information to the citizens of your country in a moment...

13.10.2024 4

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Hurricane Milton Proves Elon Musk’s X Is Useless in a Crisis

For a good long time, if you wanted to watch a major news event unfold online, your best bet was probably Twitter. It offered a flawed and partial...

11.10.2024 30

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Hurricane Milton Shows How Elon Musk’s X Is Now Useless in a Crisis

10.10.2024 20

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How Spooked Should We Be by AI Ghost Stories?

Last week, AI influencers started passing around a strange video. In it, two podcasters discuss some troubling news: They’ve just found out that...

04.10.2024 10

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How Spooked Should We Be by AI Ghost Stories?

Last week, AI influencers started passing around a strange video. In it, two podcasters discuss some troubling news: They’ve just found out that...

04.10.2024 10

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The Return of the TV Channel

Twenty-five years ago, the arrival of TiVo marked the beginning of the decline of the TV channel. First, we got recording and ad-skipping. In...

01.10.2024 5

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The Return of the TV Channel

Twenty-five years ago, the arrival of TiVo marked the beginning of the decline of the TV channel. First, we got recording and ad-skipping. In...

01.10.2024 10

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Does Anyone Need an AI Social Network?

Here’s the pitch: A social network where every other user is AI, you get to be the “main character,” and you have “infinite followers.” You...

24.09.2024 10

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Does Anyone Need an AI Social Network?

Here’s the pitch: A social network where every other user is AI, you get to be the “main character,” and you have “infinite followers.” You...

24.09.2024 10

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Is That AI? Or Does It Just Suck?

It’s an exciting time at the cutting edge of AI research. Massive companies are spending tens of billions of dollars to build, train, and deploy new...

18.09.2024 10

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Is That AI? Or Does It Just Suck?

It’s an exciting time at the cutting edge of AI research. Massive companies are spending tens of billions of dollars to build, train, and deploy new...

18.09.2024 4

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Is That AI? Or Does It Just Suck?

It’s an exciting time at the cutting edge of AI research. Massive companies are spending tens of billions of dollars to build, train, and deploy new...

18.09.2024 5

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Is That AI? Or Does It Just Suck

It’s an exciting time at the cutting edge of AI research. Massive companies are spending tens of billions of dollars to build, train, and deploy new...

18.09.2024 5

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AI Wants to Be Free

Start-ups might be in a slump, but the biggest players in tech are still investing incredible sums of money into AI. Microsoft and OpenAI have...

12.09.2024 10

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