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    AI Chatbots Have a Donald Trump ProblemDoes big tech see the news media as a convenient solution?
    By John Herrman
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    Why Silicon Valley Elites Are Turning MAGAJ.D. Vance’s nomination is, among other things, an invitation from the GOP to America’s tech overlords.
    By John Herrman
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    What Messing With Chatbots Tells Us About the Future of AIA memorable exchange about catapults shows that chatbots still break, but they’re getting better at not taking the bait.
    By John Herrman
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    AI Investors Are Starting to Wonder: Is This Just a Bubble?It’s been great for Nvidia. But who else is actually going to make money here?
    By John Herrman
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    The Troubling Triumph of the Supercheap GadgetThrowaway computers are the new plastic.
    By John Herrman
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    The Internet’s Biggest MysteryHow many regular users do the likes of Facebook, Youtube, and Netflix even have anymore?
    By John Herrman
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    Uncanny AI Videos Are About to Flood the InternetAt their best, they’ll astonish. At their worst, they’ll promote a sense of general shabbiness online.
    By John Herrman
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    The Other Big Problem With AI SearchWhat if plagiarism is the whole product?
    By John Herrman
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    How Siri Made Apple Cautious About AIThe company is still trying to make good on a vision of a personal assistant offered in 2011.
    By John Herrman
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    Instagram Discovers New, Annoying Place to Put AdsThis is the kind of behavior you’d expect from a SEO farm or a porn site.
    By John Herrman
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    What Ever Happened to the AI Apocalypse?Out: building God. In: partnering with Apple.
    By John Herrman
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    Why AI Search Blew Up in Google’s FaceThe search giant advised us to eat glue and rocks and maybe even try walking off a cliff. The gaffes are part of a much bigger story.
    By John Herrman
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    How Microsoft Plans to Squeeze Cash Out of AIThe same way it always has with most everything else — by leveraging our PCs.
    By John Herrman
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    The Scarlett Johansson Incident Makes OpenAI Look DesperateInsisting that the public compare its chatbot to one from the movies is sweaty behavior from Sam Altman.
    By John Herrman
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    Google Is About to Change the Whole Internet — AgainThe company’s all-in investment in AI.
    By John Herrman
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    GPT-4o Is OpenAI’s Plan to Win Friends and Influence PeopleChatGPT has a new voice, and it may already be flirting with you.
    By John Herrman
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    Why LinkedIn Now Wants You to Play GamesAlong with everybody else, everywhere else.
    By John Herrman
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    TikTok Reaches for the ConstitutionThe app’s complicated relationship with free speech might be its last hope
    By John Herrman
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    The Secret Weakness of TikTok’s All-Powerful AlgorithmThe social-media giant is paying a price for its own mythmaking.
    By John Herrman
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    Google Is Staring Down Its First Serious Threats in YearsThe search giant now faces three simultaneous challenges: government regulators, real competition, and itself.
    By John Herrman
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    Meta’s AI Needs to Speak With YouThe company is putting chatbots everywhere so you don’t go anywhere.
    By John Herrman
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    How Product Recommendations Broke GoogleAnd ate the internet in the process.
    By John Herrman
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    The First AI Gadgets Are a Cautionary TaleThese wearable devices feel new and ambitious — and that’s the problem.
    By John Herrman
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    On Truth Social, Trump’s Sad Mini-MAGA, It’s 2016 ForeverIt’s a throwback to when he wasn’t president and Elon Musk hadn’t cornered the online right on X.
    By John Herrman
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    The Deodorant AI Spokesmodel Is a Real Person, Sort OfAn AI-generated ad for deodorant wipes has driven the internet insane.
    By John Herrman
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    Who’s Behind All the ‘Pussy in Bio’ on X?An investigation into the marketers and scammers responsible for X’s most visible — and most memeable — spambot problem.
    By John Herrman
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    The Government Finally Comes for AppleThe Department of Justice is mad about the green bubbles.
    By John Herrman
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    X’s New Video Strategy Is a Pivot to NowhereThe social-media platform is going video-first by posting every other platform’s videos last.
    By John Herrman
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    Why the TikTok Ban Is Scrambling WashingtonBoth parties seem unable to take a clear position on it — but the ban might pass anyway. Three theories of the case.
    By John Herrman
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    With Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul Fight, Netflix Enters Its Stunt EraIn another year, this would be a classic pay-per-view event. But in 2024, it’s an experiment for the streaming giant.
    By John Herrman
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    TikTok Seems Pretty Worried About Getting BannedTikTok’s prompt asking users to lobby Congress on its behalf kind of broke TikTok — and Congress.
    By John Herrman
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    Apple, Tesla, and the Dying Dream of Self-Driving CarsApple’s decision to kill its automotive program is part of a bigger story.
    By John Herrman
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    ChatGPT and Google Gemini Are Both DoomedAll-purpose chatbots have an impossible job.
    By John Herrman
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    Can Reddit Survive Its IPO?The company wants to sell shares to users and user data to Google. Redditors might have other ideas.
    By John Herrman
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    AI Companies Are Getting the Culture War They DeserveGoogle’s new image generator is yet another half-baked AI tool that is practically designed to provoke controversy.
    By John Herrman
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    OpenAI’s New Product, Sora, Is Already Producing Wild VideosIt sure seems like a big jump forward in text-to-video technology.
    By John Herrman
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    Walmart Is Getting Tired of Just Being a StoreAmerica’s biggest retailer wants to buy America’s biggest TV-maker, but not for the reasons you’d think.
    By John Herrman
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    Joe Biden’s TikTok TroublesThe president has problems with young voters that won’t be solved by posting more.
    By John Herrman
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    Apple’s Vision Pro Isn’t for Everyone — But It’s Still a Home RunConsider it a revolutionary experiment to prove that goggle computing can work.
    By David Pogue
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    Big Tech Still Has a Big Addiction to ChinaAmerica’s tech giants have made a show of distancing themselves from China, but in many ways their dependence on it has actually grown.
    By John Herrman
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    Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just BoughtIs the Vision Pro for watching movies? Working? Being alone? Collaborating? Nobody knows, really.
    By John Herrman
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    Google’s New AI-Powered Browser Could Mark the End of the Human InternetLess a place of words written by people, more one of words generated by bots.
    By John Herrman
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    The Vision Pro’s Biggest Problem Is AppleNobody wants to lend a hand to the richest tech company on earth.
    By John Herrman
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    Celebrities Already Live in AI HellYou’re probably next.
    By John Herrman
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    What I Learned Selling a Used Pencil on TikTok ShopIt was supposed to be a test. Suddenly hundreds of people were watching. What’s going on here?
    By John Herrman
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    AI Is Coming for the InfluencersNow, brands are paying to advertise with AI-generated content creators. Will it work?
    By John Herrman
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    Shein Found Amazon’s WeaknessThe Everything Store seems to be legitimately worried about this fast-fashion upstart.
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    What Do AI Companies Want With the Media?The big deal OpenAI just inked with Axel Springer offers a glimpse of how AI and the media might eventually intersect.
    By John Herrman
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    What the Hell Is Elon Musk Doing at X? 5 Theories of the CaseNot only are things not going according to plan — it can seem as though there was never much of a plan at all.
    By John Herrman
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    Is Your Phone the Reason You Feel Broke?The smartphone economy is booming — and it also feels awful.
    By John Herrman
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