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Rebecca Heilweil

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The DOJ used Palantir to build an app to help find criminals—and then shut it down

Internal emails show that DOJ moved to decommission SHIELD, a Palantir-built mobile app used by federal law enforcement to search identity and...

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Your AI-dar probably doesn’t work

While there are some broad patterns to how AI writes, it’s still very easy to mold AI content for your own purposes.

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Girls Who Code CEO Tarika Barrett says AI skepticism can be a strength

The chief executive talks to Fast Company about the AI gender usage gap and student anxiety surrounding the tech.

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SpaceX’s biggest business risk? Politics

The company’s pre-IPO filing acknowledges the many levers of government that could supercharge, or stall, its ambitions.

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The students booing AI aren’t Luddites

Graduation speakers are treating artificial intelligence like the defining challenge and opportunity of a generation. Many students seem tired of...

19.05.2026 3

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Will AI cause mass political polarization? Maybe not

Dartmouth political scientist Brendan Nyhan says fears of AI-driven political persuasion may be overstated.

19.05.2026 8

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Companies say they can track Starlink users. Should the government be worried?

The same satellite network used by activists and federal agencies alike may be easier to monitor than many users realize.

15.05.2026 7

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The Demi Moore-AI debate is missing the point

The backlash to the actress’s Cannes comments reveals how conversations about artificial intelligence keep collapsing into shallow pro- and anti-AI...

13.05.2026 9

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The Polymarket betting pool wants to cash in on hantavirus

Prediction markets are turning public institutions into arbiters of financial gain.

08.05.2026 5

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The American tech manufacturing success story hiding in plain sight

Corning, once best known for Pyrex and Gorilla Glass, is now at the center of the U.S. push to build AI data centers.

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This NASA astronaut has spent years shaping the future of spaceflight. Now he’s finally heading to orbit

Anil Menon discusses his upcoming ISS mission, commercial space stations, and the unanswered medical questions of life in microgravity.

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Celebrities like Taylor Swift are setting the guardrails for the AI age

The elite want to protect themselves from AI. What about the rest of us?

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We obtained nearly 1,000 complaints about SpaceX’s Starlink. Here’s what they reveal

New documents show how the satellite provider has become a lifeline—and, for some customers, a headache.

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Inside the xAI exodus: Meet the dozens of people who have left Elon Musk’s AI company

More than 80 people, including cofounders and AI engineers, have left xAI in recent months.

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NASA’s awe-inducing iPhone moon video is a free ad for Apple, but there’s a catch

Who owns the moon (video)?

23.04.2026 8

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Sorry, Reese Witherspoon is correct about AI

Celebrities are learning the hard way that the AI discourse is toxic.

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5 ways Tim Cook remade Apple

From services to silicon to China, how Apple’s most methodical CEO reshaped the company after Steve Jobs.

21.04.2026 6

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‘The Devil Wears Prada’ has an important lesson for AI skeptics

A cerulean belt is not a large language model, but hear me out.

20.04.2026 9

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NASA finally went back to the moon. How many people actually followed along?

More people watched the Super Bowl live than the Artemis II launch.

15.04.2026 7

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Agriculture Department plans to use Grok, despite growing concerns over the chatbot (exclusive)

The USDA says it’s ‘proud’ to sponsor xAI’s chatbot for federal approval, even as officials hesitate over past controversies and failed safety...

13.04.2026 9

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AI writing is the technology’s bleakest use case

In writing, there’s an old adage: Write what you know. This, of course, requires knowing something in the first place.

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Inside the SpaceX founder factory—and the race to solve the next generation of impossible problems

We built the largest-ever database of ex-SpaceX employees turned company builders: What they learned, how they’re applying it, and the future...

07.04.2026 6

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Astronauts are bringing computers to space—and IT troubles, too

HP’s Manoj Leelanivas says future missions will depend on systems that can ‘break and recover’ on their own, as astronauts rely more on everyday...

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Meet the ‘Club Penguin’ superfans giving the game a second life

After Disney shut it down and fan revivals faltered, a volunteer team is quietly running a free version for a million users.

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Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey is putting AV firms on blast for using human staffers

The investigation points to widespread use of remote operators, including overseas workers, and calls for federal oversight.

31.03.2026 7

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Sora never understood what makes social media work

Social media hinges on the pretense of reality. OpenAI’s AI platform didn’t.

25.03.2026 10

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Anthropic’s forced removal from the U.S. government is threatening critical AI nuclear safety research

As government agencies struggle to understand whether they’re allowed to use Claude, projects at the Energy Department designed to limit AI’s work...

13.03.2026 6

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The uncomfortable valley: Microsoft Teams emoji faces have got to go

They don’t make the digital workplace more casual. They make it uncomfortably weird.

11.03.2026 8

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Uncovered records reveal the hidden costs of Waymo robotaxis on San Francisco streets

Self-driving cars are creating new problems for city transit systems. Officials are still figuring out how to adapt.

09.03.2026 10

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Welcome to the age of combat via chatbot

We’re officially in the AI warfare era.

03.03.2026 8

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Trump is booting Anthropic from the military. Palantir helped bring it there

The company’s large role in military data systems has boosted Anthropic’s usefulness to the Pentagon.

28.02.2026 10

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OpenAI wants to get the government hooked on ChatGPT

The company says widespread federal use is critical to its mission, even if selling AI to Washington is slow and barely profitable.

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OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity near approval to host AI directly for the U.S. government (exclusive)

The shift would let them bypass partners like Palantir and Microsoft and work with the federal government directly.

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Palantir is caught in the middle of a brewing fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon

The Defense Department is threatening to blacklist Anthropic over limits on military use, potentially putting one of its top contractors in a bind.

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Electronic shelf labels mean grocery stores can now change their prices anytime they want, in seconds

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A Palantir cofounder is backing a group attacking Alex Bores over his work with . . . Palantir

11.02.2026 10

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How the Epstein files reignited the rich and powerful’s oldest grudges

05.02.2026 6

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ICE quietly scrambled for vaccine support after losing access through the VA

04.02.2026 10

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Big Tech faces new pressure for allowing ICE ads

04.02.2026 10

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Every dating app has AI now. Can it help make better matches?

01.02.2026 10

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Where is Donald Trump’s strategic Bitcoin reserve?

29.01.2026 10

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Combining the Artemis mission and AI will fuel a new surge of moon landing deniers

26.01.2026 10

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Apple is facing increasing demands to do more for Iranian protestors

17.01.2026 10

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Is Starlink authoritarian-proof? 

15.01.2026 10

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The U.S. government is punting on Grok’s undressing issue

09.01.2026 10

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Instacart’s price testing controversy isn’t over 

09.01.2026 10

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Deepfakes of Maduro are a reminder that AI content thrives in political chaos

06.01.2026 10

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A California lawmaker wants to ban AI from children’s toys

03.01.2026 10

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The banality of Jeffery Epstein’s expanding online world

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Why Waymo went down in San Francisco

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