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John Herrman

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Kalshi and Polymarket Are Worried About Their Reputations

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...

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The Mystery of ‘Human Meat’ for Sale on Temu

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...

02.05.2026 6

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My Adventures With ‘The AI That Actually Does Things’

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...

28.04.2026 10

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The Downgrading of the American Tech Worker

Everyone in tech is worried about layoffs. Since the beginning of the year, Block (formerly Square) cut its workforce nearly in half, Oracle began...

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What Will Follow Apple’s Tim Cook Era?

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....

21.04.2026 10

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Zuckerberg Is Trying to Figure Out What You’ll Pay Him For

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...

21.04.2026 10

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The AI Industry Is Run By People Who Despise Each Other

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...

19.04.2026 10

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Is the AI Cybersecurity Apocalypse Already Here?

In recent months, AI models have become much better at writing, debugging, and testing code. This has scrambled the AI race, making the...

08.04.2026 10

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AI’s ‘Big Tobacco’ Moment Is Coming

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...

07.04.2026 9

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Social Media Companies Are Suddenly Getting Killed in Court

On Tuesday, a New Mexico jury found that Meta had violated state law, misleading users about safety measures and engaging in “unconscionable”...

26.03.2026 10

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Why AI Companies Want to Take Control of Your Computer

In 2024, Anthropic tested out a feature called “computer use,” a tool that could “try to manipulate a computer desktop environment,” clicking...

26.03.2026 10

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Why Iran Is Winning the Slop War

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...

19.03.2026 40

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Should You Be Able to Have Sex With ChatGPT?

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...

16.03.2026 20

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The Pentagon’s Total War Against Anthropic

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...

15.03.2026 20

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The Rise of AI ‘Brain Fry’

Microsoft, like most large software companies, has been pushing its customers to use — and pay for — AI features over the last few years,...

11.03.2026 20

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Is It Illegal to Bet on Inside Info About the Iran War?

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...

05.03.2026 20

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The Future of War Is Drones Bombing Data Centers

As the United States and Israel continue to bombard Iranian targets in and outside of the country, crippling its leadership, destroying military...

04.03.2026 20

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The AI-Powered Hacking Spree Is Here

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...

27.02.2026 30

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Why AI Companies Are Suddenly Worried About Theft

On February 23, Anthropic published a broadside to confront a threat that requires “rapid, coordinated action among industry players, policymakers,...

26.02.2026 20

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X Really Is Pulling Users to the Right

After buying Twitter, Elon Musk rebuilt it to his own specifications and preferences. This resulted in an environment we may gently call friendlier to...

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Big AI Isn’t Waiting for the Backlash

Meta’s hard and early pivot into artificial intelligence hasn’t exactly gone as planned, with tens of billions of investment dollars sunk into...

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Kalshi and Polymarket Are Eating Sports Gambling

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...

17.02.2026 10

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All Those Super Bowl Ads About AI Were a Strange and Unsettling Mess

10.02.2026 10

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All Those Super Bowl Ads About AI Were an Unsettling Mess

10.02.2026 10

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The Robot Posters Aren’t Alive … Yet

09.02.2026 10

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The Robot Posters Aren’t Alive … Yet

09.02.2026 30

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It’s the First Real Crypto Crash

07.02.2026 10

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It’s the First Real Crypto Crash

07.02.2026 30

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The New Politics of the AI Apocalypse

02.02.2026 40

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The New Politics of the AI Apocalypse

02.02.2026 30

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Silicon Valley Employees Are Starting to Protest Again

27.01.2026 10

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Silicon Valley Employees Are Starting to Protest Again

27.01.2026 10

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Instagram Reels and the New Era of Desocialized Media

26.01.2026 20

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Instagram Reels and the New Era of Desocialized Media

26.01.2026 30

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The AI Shopping Wars Are Here

21.01.2026 20

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The AI Shopping Wars Are Here

21.01.2026 20

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How Apple Is Buying an AI Strategy From Google

15.01.2026 10

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Apple Didn’t Have an AI Strategy. So It’s Buying One From Google.

15.01.2026 10

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How Claude Reset the AI Race

14.01.2026 40

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How Claude Reset the AI Race

14.01.2026 30

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The YouTube Vibecession

12.01.2026 20

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The YouTube Vibecession

12.01.2026 10

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When Prediction Markets Can’t Agree on Reality

09.01.2026 20

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What Good Are Prediction Markets If Nobody Can Agree on What Really Happened?

09.01.2026 20

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How AI Hijacked the Venezuela Story

07.01.2026 10

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How AI Hijacked the Venezuela Story

07.01.2026 30

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How Elon Musk’s X Shapes the AI Boom

02.01.2026 20

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How Elon Musk’s X Shapes the AI Boom

02.01.2026 30

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Gamers Are Extremely Mad About AI

18.12.2025 20

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Gamers Are Extremely Mad About AI

18.12.2025 10

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