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AI

The AI productivity paradox

Managers say it makes them more productive. Workers don't. What gives?

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Meta’s scam problem, UK edition

Plus: Writers react to Claude Code for writers; Elon Musk vs. OpenAI; and ChatGPT gets ads

Anthropic

Claude Code for writers

Five useful things I’ve built so far. Plus: Grok caves, and Thinking Machines implodes

AI

What I learned while cloning my own voice

Announcing Platformer+, a new way to listen to our columns

Grok

Grok gets blocked

More than a week into a deepfake scandal, a handful of foreign governments have found the strength to do what Apple, Google, and the United States will not

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AI

The project that turned me into a Claude Code believer

I feel great about the website I’m building — and terrible for professional website builders. PLUS: Who will stop Grok? And ChatGPT will see you now

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AI

Inside the debate over AI consciousness

At ConCon, researchers and tech workers debate whether future systems could develop an inner life — and how you would know if they did

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Deepfakes

Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5

AI

11 predictions for 2026

PLUS: What I got right (and wrong) about 2025

Regulation

Spotify is part of the trade war now

The US is retaliating against the EU after it fined X — and now some of Europe's biggest companies are caught in the crossfire

Meta's scam problem may trigger a legal reckoning

A fresh investigation reveals the scope of Meta's problem in China. Will a pending court case force the company to crack down — or destroy Section 230?

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OpenAI

OpenAI is a normal company now

A decade years in, what started as a sci-fi lab is now focused on engagement and growth. What does that mean for building AI safely?

Child Safety

Australia kicks the kids off social media

How social networks lost the argument. PLUS: All worked up over Nvidia's H200

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X

How X made the EU's case for it

By banning an ad account on a flimsy pretext, X demonstrated the exact behavior that led the European Union to fine it. PLUS: The state AI law moratorium is back, and the Paramount-Netflix fight

Oversight Board

Where Meta's biggest experiment in governance went wrong

Five years after the Oversight Board's creation, few are satisfied with the result. Can it be saved?

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Algorithms

How researchers reversed polarization on X with a simple change to the algorithm

A new study offers evidence for what we’ve long suspected: rage bait is distorting our politics. PLUS: The David Sacks discourse, and Claude Opus 4.5 debuts

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