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John HerrmanDaily Intelligencer |
The prediction-market industry has a lot of reasons to be optimistic right now. It’s growing extremely quickly, multiplying many times in size since...
I should get this out of the way: I have no good reason to believe that Temu, the popular discount shopping app, is selling human meat disguised as...
For a week in January, a website called Moltbook drove the internet insane. Maybe you noticed. A Reddit clone designed for use by AI agents, Moltbook...
Everyone in tech is worried about layoffs. Since the beginning of the year, Block (formerly Square) cut its workforce nearly in half, Oracle began...
At long last, the elders have cast their ballots, the conclave has dissolved, and a tastefully designed blue puff of smoke has risen above Apple Park....
The basic bargain accepted by planet Earth’s few billion social-media users for the last few decades has been that, in exchange for use of a free...
One thing you hear about a lot from the tiny group of extraordinarily wealthy and powerful people in charge of America’s AI companies is that, as...
In recent months, AI models have become much better at writing, debugging, and testing code. This has scrambled the AI race, making the...
Last month, OpenAI shut down Sora, its attempt at a social-media app, as part of a pivot away from a “do everything all at once” strategy that the...
On Tuesday, a New Mexico jury found that Meta had violated state law, misleading users about safety measures and engaging in “unconscionable”...
In 2024, Anthropic tested out a feature called “computer use,” a tool that could “try to manipulate a computer desktop environment,” clicking...
There are enormous gaps in the information available about the war with Iran. In the country at the center of the conflict, tight media and internet...
An iron law of running a large internet service is that your users will figure out how to use it to share, consume, or make porn. Explicit adult...
People in AI love talking timelines. Usually, they’re referring to the future: the number of months or years until models are able to do x or y; the...
Microsoft, like most large software companies, has been pushing its customers to use — and pay for — AI features over the last few years,...
On prediction markets, there are many ways you can make or lose money on America’s foreign wars. There’s been plenty of demand lately. Before the...
As the United States and Israel continue to bombard Iranian targets in and outside of the country, crippling its leadership, destroying military...
In September of last year, a “middle-aged programming nerd” and “early adopter of AI coding” wrote a viral blog post asking, amid waves of...
On February 23, Anthropic published a broadside to confront a threat that requires “rapid, coordinated action among industry players, policymakers,...
After buying Twitter, Elon Musk rebuilt it to his own specifications and preferences. This resulted in an environment we may gently call friendlier to...
Meta’s hard and early pivot into artificial intelligence hasn’t exactly gone as planned, with tens of billions of investment dollars sunk into...
There are two main reasons prediction markets have blown up in the past couple of years. One is that they offer a large group of people something they...