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
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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
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The AIs have memory problems
And maybe not the ones you're thinking of
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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
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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'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
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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