Productivity
Three apps that made me more productive this year
Lessons on taking smarter notes, reducing context switching, and building a better personal archive
AI
AI
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?
AI
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
AI
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?
AI
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
AI
Meta unleashes its Llama
The company's open-source AI is now roughly on par with rivals from OpenAI and Google. Should we worry?
AI
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
AI
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
AI
How to stop Perplexity and save the web from bad AI
We can still have the internet we want — but we have to try new business models
Apple
Nine things to know about Apple Intelligence
Apple’s move into content moderation, unlimited ChatGPT, and more
Apple
Apple’s AI moment arrives
What WWDC told us about the near-term future of computing
How one change to Google search blew up one independent publisher
Until last year, Retro Dodo had a growing business and a team of six. Now it’s fighting for its life
Google’s AI search setback
The AI Overviews debacle and leaked search ranking documents tell a common story about the web's future — and it's not pretty
Google’s broken link to the web
With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background
OpenAI
ChatGPT gets an emotional upgrade
OpenAI’s forthcoming voice assistant laughs, flirts, helps — and draws a sharp distinction with Google
AI
How AI changed the bargain between platforms and users
As Stack Overflow, Reddit, and others license their users’ posts to train AI, the internet’s extraction phase is accelerating