OpenAI's toy story
In a new partnership with Mattel, the company hopes to reimagine play — but making internet-connected toys safe will be anything but child's play
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Meta looks for an AI reset
Mark Zuckerberg knows the company needs a new AI strategy. Is Scale's Alexandr Wang the partner he needs?
Apple is shipping through it
At WWDC, the company insists that its AI transformation is well underway — but the evidence feels a little thin
The bro-ligarchy blows up
Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump. What happens next?
How some Republicans changed their minds about AI safety
With a looming 10-year ban on any AI regulation at all, even the right is starting to get nervous about what might go wrong
Is OpenAI making the same mistake Humane did?
Expectations for the company's AI device are already sky-high — and Jony Ive keeps raising them
The AI browser wars are about to begin
Artificial intelligence is already writing an obituary for the internet as we know it. So why is everyone building new web browsers?
Meta rests its case
The company looks poised to put its antitrust woes behind it. But its other trials may only be just beginning
OpenAI is going to make hardware
Generative AI and devices haven't yet found a good fit. Will Jony Ive be the one to change that? PLUS: Claude 4 arrives
At Google I/O, everything is changing and normal and scary and chill
At its annual developer conference, the company seeks to reassure everyone that AI is for everyday utility — but the great disruption to the web continues
The US bans deepfake porn and scams
For victims, the Take It Down Act could finally bring some relief — but the Trump Administration has already signaled plans to weaponize it
Great Replacement Grok and the age of adversarial AI
An obsession with “white genocide” in X’s chatbot is only the latest example of platforms using artificial intelligence against their users
The AIs have memory problems
And maybe not the ones you're thinking of
The myth of the AI-native startup
Silicon Valley can't wait for a tiny company powered by AI agents. The companies who are trying it have a lot of regrets
Stats from a dying web
A startling statistic from Google’s antitrust trial raises fears that a long-predicted decline has now begun
WhatsApp just stunned the spyware industry
In winning a $167 million judgment against NSO Group, the company has struck a significant blow against illegal surveillance
OpenAI
A nonprofit will control OpenAI after all
The company is dropping an effort to separate itself from its nonprofit parent — but courts may still be skeptical of its new plan
Meta
Mark Zuckerberg on bots and benchmarks
Meta's CEO has some surprising takes on "healthy" bot companions, loneliness as a market opportunity, and that whole benchmark cheating controversy
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The AIs are trying too hard to be your friend
Meta AI, ChatGPT, and the dangers of being glazed and confused
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Meta has a chatbot problem
Celebrities, minors, and sexually explicit chats are a dangerous combination — a lesson the company is determined to learn the hard way
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The Oversight Board gives Meta a pass on anti-trans posts
The beleaguered body’s influence has been waning — and now its independence may be, too
Google just helped the government’s case against it
Revelations that the company pursued pre-install deals for Gemini are giving the government fresh ammunition just as the trial heats up
Google may be on the brink of a breakup
After two blistering losses in court, a new era for the internet may be coming into view
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Meta can't figure out what to do about Facebook
And other revelations from day two of Meta's antitrust trial. PLUS: the OpenAI social network
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Meta’s antitrust trial begins
More than four years after it was first filed, the government's case is only getting harder to prove
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The platforms cash in their chips with Trump
From Meta to Nvidia, tech CEOs are paying the president to get the outcomes they want — and it's working
Meta
Meta gets rebuked over benchmark gaming
"Llama con" just got a whole new meeting
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Meta's Llama drama
Seemingly caught gaming a key benchmark, and defending allegations it taught to the test, Meta sees a rocky launch for its latest AI model
TikTok
TikTok’s fate could be decided by tariffs
Trump is holding out ByteDance's app as a bargaining chip. Will China take the bait?
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How AI bots are suffocating Wikipedia
Scrapers caused the online encyclopedia's bandwidth to increase by 50 percent last year — and its plan to fight back may not be enough
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We finally know why Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI
A new book offers the most thorough explanation to date. Would it have mattered if we knew at the time?
Anthropic
People are using AI to learn more
Exclusive data from Anthropic about Claude usage finds that AI is both automating and augmenting human labor — and people are increasingly using it to educate themselves