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What Are AI ‘Agents’ For?

What Are AI ‘Agents’ For?
25.01.2025 40

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John Herrman

What Are AI ‘Agents’ For?

What Are AI ‘Agents’ For?
25.01.2025 20

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Big Tech Is in a Devil’s Bargain With Donald Trump

Big Tech Is in a Devil’s Bargain With Donald Trump
22.01.2025 2

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Big Tech Is in a Devil’s Bargain With Donald Trump

Big Tech Is in a Devil’s Bargain With Donald Trump
22.01.2025 2

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Everybody’s Trying to Figure Out Who Banned TikTok

Everybody’s Trying to Figure Out Who Banned TikTok
18.01.2025 7

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Everybody’s Trying to Figure Out Who Banned TikTok

Everybody’s Trying to Figure Out Who Banned TikTok
18.01.2025 7

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Why Biden Is Right to Warn of a ‘Tech-Industrial Complex’

Why Biden Is Right to Warn of a ‘Tech-Industrial Complex’
17.01.2025 20

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Social Media Is for Consuming Disasters, Not Surviving Them

Social Media Is for Consuming Disasters, Not Surviving Them
17.01.2025 3

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Social Media Is for Consuming Disasters, Not Surviving Them

Social Media Is for Consuming Disasters, Not Surviving Them
16.01.2025 4

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The Two Competing Futures of Self-Driving Cars

The Two Competing Futures of Self-Driving Cars
12.01.2025 40

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The Two Competing Futures of Self-Driving Cars

The Two Competing Futures of Self-Driving Cars
12.01.2025 40

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Tiktok’s Final Appeal to Supreme Court Didn’t Go Too Well

Tiktok’s Final Appeal to Supreme Court Didn’t Go Too Well
11.01.2025 6

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Tiktok’s Final Appeal to the Supreme Court Didn’t Go Too Well

Tiktok’s Final Appeal to the Supreme Court Didn’t Go Too Well
11.01.2025 9

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Eternal Apology Tour

In November 2016, Mark Zuckerberg wrote a post responding to intense post-election scrutiny about how Facebook was handling moderation. “The...

08.01.2025 10

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Eternal Apology Tour

In November 2016, Mark Zuckerberg wrote a post responding to intense post-election scrutiny about how Facebook was handling moderation. “The...

08.01.2025 10

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When Chatbots Choose Violence

Character.ai is a popular app for chatting with bots. Its millions of chatbots, most created by users, all play different roles. Some are broad:...

03.01.2025 4

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When Chatbots Choose Violence

Character.ai is a popular app for chatting with bots. Its millions of chatbots, most created by users, all play different roles. Some are broad:...

03.01.2025 2

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Meta’s Big, Weird Bet on AI Bots

Among Meta’s many resolutions for the new year — making augmented reality and the metaverse happen, positioning itself to absorb TikTok refugees...

01.01.2025 4

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Meta’s Big Bet on Bots

Among Meta’s many resolutions for the new year — making augmented reality and the metaverse happen, positioning itself to absorb TikTok refugees...

31.12.2024 20

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The Chaos Lurking in Apple’s Most-Popular Apps List

At the end of every year, Apple releases a list of the most popular iPhone apps. It’s by no means a full representation of what’s going on in...

30.12.2024 3

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The Chaos Lurking in Apple’s Most-Popular Apps List

At the end of every year, Apple releases a list of the most popular iPhone apps. It’s by no means a full representation of what’s going on in...

30.12.2024 8

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The Future of AI Shouldn’t Be Taken at Face Value

It costs a lot to build an AI company, which is why the most competitive ones are either existing tech giants with an abundance of cash to burn or...

28.12.2024 6

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The Future of AI Shouldn’t Be Taken at Face Value

It costs a lot to build an AI company, which is why the most competitive ones are either existing tech giants with an abundance of cash to burn or...

28.12.2024 7

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Why YouTube Should Cut Off Its Thumbnails

YouTube, the internet’s primary video host for nearly two decades now, says it’s ready to start cracking down on “egregious clickbait,” with...

21.12.2024 2

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Why YouTube Should Cut Off Its Thumbnails

YouTube, the internet’s primary video host for nearly two decades now, says it’s ready to start cracking down on “egregious clickbait,” with...

21.12.2024 5

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Luigi Mangione’s Full Story Isn’t Online

When the identity of Luigi Mangione, the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter, was revealed on Monday, the online search — a reporting process...

11.12.2024 3

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Sam Altman’s Mixed Signals

OpenAI is finishing out the year with a spectacle: the “12 Days of Openai” — a.k.a. “Shipmas,” as in shipping products — began last week,...

10.12.2024 9

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Sam Altman’s Mixed Signals

OpenAI is finishing out the year with a spectacle: the “12 Days of Openai” — a.k.a. “Shipmas,” as in shipping products — began last week,...

10.12.2024 9

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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 6

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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 4

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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,...

21.11.2024 5

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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,...

21.11.2024 10

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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 1

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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 10

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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 3

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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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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...

08.11.2024 10

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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...

08.11.2024 5

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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 3

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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 7

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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...

01.11.2024 4

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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 3

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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...

20.10.2024 2

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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...

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 2

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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 1

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Hurricane Milton Shows How Elon Musk’s X Is Now 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...

10.10.2024 1

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