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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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These founders realized their bot was unsafe — and actually shut it down
A parable about responsibility in the AI age
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America crafts an AI action plan
Tech platforms got a rare opportunity to present President Trump with a wishlist — and they're using DeepSeek's success to push for controversial policies
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Chatbots have started to reshape the web
New data from Adobe offers evidence for a big shift away from traditional search engines. Will the internet's vast public commons survive?
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Manus of the hour
What the hype cycle around a new Chinese AI model tells us about the state of competition in agents
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There are probably too many AI companies now
Everyone has a model. Almost no one has a business
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America's new AI safety plan is “let’s see what happens”
At the Paris AI Action Summit, J.D. Vance delivers anything but
Google slings more AI at the web
A leaked AI mode for search gives publishers fresh reason for worry — and maybe reasons to strike a deal
Google is ready to work on AI weapons now
The company’s promise to avoid building AI applications that cause harm has been deleted
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ChatGPT's deep research might be the first good agent
OpenAI's new research tool still makes mistakes — but in its speed and average quality of analysis, it represents a remarkable step forward
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DeepSeek is also a design story
The company’s decision to expose chain of thought is a surprise hit — and a reminder of how far AI product teams have left to go
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Four big reasons to worry about DeepSeek (and four reasons to calm down)
The Chinese AI upstart has rattled Silicon Valley — but how much the game has changed remains to be seen
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15 predictions for 2025
PLUS: What I got right and wrong about 2024
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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