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What I learned from the “AI is fake and sucks” debate
Gary Marcus (and many others) respond
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The phony comforts of AI skepticism
It’s fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it’s real and dangerous
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AI companies hit a scaling wall
OpenAI, Google and others are seeing diminishing returns to building ever-bigger models — but that may not matter as much as you would guess
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Notion brings AI to email
Is artificial intelligence the solution to inbox overload?
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The AI agents have arrived
Artificial intelligence can now compute for you on your behalf — and the web is never going to be the same
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Anthropic makes an AI safety plan
Can responsible scaling policies bring the future into alignment?
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Anthropic is done with AI doomerism
What happens when the safety-first AI company decides it needs to go faster?
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Can AI regulation survive the First Amendment?
California’s first effort to regulate AI slop hit a wall. What now?
Productivity
Three apps that made me more productive this year
Lessons on taking smarter notes, reducing context switching, and building a better personal archive
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California's controversial AI bill is on the verge of becoming law
California’s SB-1047 is on a path to the governor’s desk. Will it kill the AI boom?
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Three reasons we’re in an AI bubble (and four reasons we’re not)
AI critics are right about the industry’s challenges — but they risk missing the larger story
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The AI companies are trying to go legit
The era of scraping and praying is coming to an end. But will the web be any better off when it does?
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Sam Altman calls for an AI coalition
AI leaders are promoting the idea of an arms race — but the hype is getting ahead of the technology. PLUS: KOSA makes a comeback
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Meta unleashes its Llama
The company's open-source AI is now roughly on par with rivals from OpenAI and Google. Should we worry?
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How the world is ceding AI to America
As regulations pile up in Europe, South America, and elsewhere, it’s still full speed ahead in the United States
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The e/accs inch closer to the White House
How billionaire donors, a new policy framework, and Trump’s VP pick promise to steamroll the AI safety movement