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  1. weird science
    ‘I Almost Sound Like a Crazy Person, But I Think It’s a Superconductor’Scientists are again buzzing about a potential breakthrough in superconductivity. Will this be another disappointment?
    By Jeff Wise
  2. screen time
    Shein Found Amazon’s WeaknessThe Everything Store seems to be legitimately worried about this fast-fashion upstart.
    By John Herrman
  3. screen time
    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
  4. technology
    OpenAI Was Never Going to Save Us From the Robot ApocalypseThe idea that a single nonprofit could ensure that AI was developed at a “safe” speed never made any sense.
    By Eric Levitz
  5. technology
    Why Was Sam Altman Fired As CEO of OpenAI?After a messy few days in the world of artificial intelligence, Altman is back as CEO at OpenAI — with a new, investor-friendly board behind him.
    By Chas Danner
  7. technology
    Sam Altman and OpenAI Are Victims of Their Own HypeThe reaction to his firing says more about the anxiety around artificial intelligence and whether it can actually make a profit.
    By John Herrman
  8. technology
    Does Elon Musk’s Media Matters Lawsuit Have a Chance?Legal experts seem far from convinced.
    By Nia Prater
  9. technology
    Sam Altman’s Job at Microsoft Will Be Harder Than EverWhat’s next after the tech coup of the century?
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  10. addicted to posting
    Advertisers Are Running From X and Elon Musk’s AntisemitismApple, IBM, and several entertainment conglomerates have pulled ads from the platform. Musk is tweeting through it.
    By Matt Stieb and Chas Danner
  11. screen time
    Is Bin Laden Really Going Viral With the Kids?An investigation.
    By John Herrman
  12. screen time
    How Meta Is Monetizing the Decline of FacebookHave you heard about WhatsApp’s aggressive new ad strategy?
    By John Herrman
  13. screen time
    What Does It Mean That Elon Musk’s New AI Chatbot Is ‘Anti-Woke’?It is useful to think of public-facing AI chatbots characters with personalities. There’s a new one in the mix.
    By John Herrman
  14. screen time
    How Big Tech Companies Really Think About AIWe’re learning a lot from what tech companies’ lawyers argue in response to the many lawsuits they face over their voracious AI models.
    By John Herrman
  15. the money game
    Confessions of a Middle-Class FounderDuring the boom times, I launched a start-up so I could become rich. Years later, I’m still looking for my exit.
    By Anonymous
  16. the power issue
    The Most Powerful New Yorkers You’ve Never Heard Of49 people who are actually running New York City.
    By The Editors
  17. first person
    My Quest to Downsize Without Throwing Anything AwayA big old house full of belongings — could I find them a new life?
    By David Pogue
  18. screen time
    Would Anyone Really Want to Pay for TikTok?Social-media companies are suddenly interested in subscriptions, but they may be misunderstanding their audience.
    By John Herrman
  19. taboos
    The New War on Porn Is WinningLaws requiring ID checks for websites are wildly popular — and potentially fatal for the adult industry.
    By Lux Alptraum
  20. what we know
    What X CEO Linda Yaccarino Claimed at the Code ConferenceIn a tense interview, the head of Elon Musk’s social-media platform insisted everything was going great — and that she really was the CEO.
    By Chas Danner
  21. tomorrow
    Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our AgeHe insists the artificial intelligence he is creating could destroy civilization even as he hastens its advancement. Do we know enough about him?
    By Elizabeth Weil
  22. screen time
    The AI Chatbot Assistants Are Here. Do We Actually Want Them?Sometimes I just want to use my computer, not tell it what to do.
    By John Herrman
  23. stop the presses
    The Journalist and the BillionaireWalter Isaacson, schmoozy icon of the Old Media elite, has written a biography of Elon Musk, who despises all of those things.
    By Shawn McCreesh
  24. the money game
    That’s What I Call PonzinomicsWith Sam Bankman-Fried, Gisele, and a credulous Michael Lewis at the zenith of crypto hype.
    By Zeke Faux
  25. twitter
    Twitter’s New X Is Officially a Bad SignNeighbors and city building inspectors were not thrilled about Elon Musk’s giant new strobe light atop X-Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters.
    By Chas Danner
  26. technology
    All the Ways Elon Musk’s X Is Different From TwitterThe branding is wildly inconsistent, but for now the biggest changes are happening only in Musk’s dreams.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  27. fiascos
    Elon Musk Tries Forcing Twitter Users to Use Less TwitterMusk announced reading limits for all Twitter accounts over the weekend, blaming AI but punishing humans who still use Twitter.
    By Chas Danner
  28. screen time
    Apple Keeps Trying to Fix Its UsersThe company’s guilty conscience is making it nudgy.
    By John Herrman
  29. artificial intelligence
    Inside the AI FactoryAs the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.
    By Josh Dzieza
  30. screen time
    Are Apple’s New Goggles a Nightmare? Maybe.The Vision Pro — think of it as a face computer — is surreal, fascinating, unsettling, and $3,500.
    By John Herrman
  31. tomorrow
    Congress Isn’t Ready for the AI RevolutionWhat happens when millions of people lose their jobs to computers?
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  32. screen time
    The Hollywood Writers’ Strike and the Threat of AIHow did trolling about ChatGPT become the new “learn to code”?
    By John Herrman
  33. just asking questions
    The Grim New Consensus on Social Media and Teen DepressionPsychologist Jean Twenge discusses all the evidence that Instagram and TikTok are making kids miserable.
    By Benjamin Hart
  34. screen time
    Is AI Coming for Coders First?The tech industry is running a big experiment on itself.
    By John Herrman
  35. artificial intelligence
    Is AI Turning Me Into an Obsolete Machine?Everything you need to know about GPT-4 and my existential crisis.
    By Eric Levitz
  36. life in pixels
    Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse?Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland.
    By Paul Murray
  37. artificial intelligence
    You Are Not a ParrotAnd a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.
    By Elizabeth Weil
  38. pivot
    The Upside of Venture Capital’s SlowdownFewer insta-billionaires might make for healthier companies.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  39. twitter
    Inside Elon’s ‘Extremely Hardcore’ TwitterTwitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive, ranting billionaires — then one made himself the CEO.
    By Zoë Schiffer, Casey Newton, and Alex Heath
  40. the future is now
    That AI Chatbot Wrote a Pretty Decent New York ArticleIs this the end of journalism as we know it?
    By Intelligencer Staff
  41. screen time
    The Machine Will Speak With You NowDALL-E’s fun, impressive, and somewhat unsettling chatbot sibling is open to the public.
    By John Herrman
  42. foreign interests
    Biden’s New Cold War Against China Could BackfireThe U.S. is now officially committed to thwarting China’s development goals. That comes with big risks.
    By Eric Levitz
  43. what is elon musk?
    What Is Elon Musk?And how is it possible that he could emerge from his Twitter debacle more culturally dominant than ever?
    By Lane Brown
  44. the internet
    Kanye to Buy Parler, Keep Posting Dark Twisted Social-Media RantsAfter his suspension from other sites for antisemitism, Ye said he’s buying Parler to ensure conservatives can “freely express ourselves.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  45. crime
    Inside the Ransomware Gangs That Extort HospitalsThey shut down patient care and put lives at risk. Would the pandemic finally slow them down?
    By Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden
  46. screen time
    AI Art Is Here and the World Is Already DifferentWork, communication, and even thought change when we can instantly command convincing images into existence.
    By John Herrman
  47. the future
    Will DALL-E the AI Artist Take My Job?I was unnerved by how well DALL-E 2 mimics a human photo editor, turning text into original artwork. So I put my AI competition to the test.
    By Megan Paetzhold
  48. what is elon musk?
    SpaceXCadetsIf you want your child to become the next billionaire industrialist, Astra Nova might be a good place to start.
    By Sarah Jones
  49. rage against the machines
    Who Will Save Us From the Russian Chess Robots?A robot grabbed and broke a kid’s finger during their chess match at a tournament in Moscow last week.
    By Chas Danner
  50. just asking questions
    How the Internet Changed What It Means to Be NormalIn her new book Finding Normal, former New York columnist Alexa Tsoulis-Reay explores the internet’s influence on sexuality and identity.
    By Eve Peyser
  51. art
    How Agnieszka Pilat Became Silicon Valley’s Favorite Artist“It’s our obligation to have a relationship with machines so they grow up to be good citizens.”
    By Shawn McCreesh
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