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AI’s Next Frontier: People Skills

Imagine a chatbot that actually knows how to talk to you.

April 16, 2026

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The Strange Origin of AI’s ‘Reasoning’ Abilities

It involves 4chan, of all places.

April 14, 2026

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Is Schoolwork Optional Now?

Education is on the verge of becoming fully automated.

April 10, 2026

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Claude Mythos Is Everyone’s Problem

What happens when AI can hack everything?

April 9, 2026

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The View From Inside the AI Bubble

Secret parties, lavish buffets, and talks of annihilation at one of the largest AI-research conferences

December 14, 2025

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I Watched 12 Hours of Nick Fuentes

The white-supremacist influencer is laying the groundwork to go even bigger.

December 13, 2025

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Sam Altman Got What He Wanted

For now

December 12, 2025

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‘Six-Seven’ Is Six Feet Under

Grown-ups killed it.

December 12, 2025

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I Am Time Magazine’s Person of the Year

So are you. Congrats!

December 11, 2025

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OpenAI Is in Trouble

The start-up is falling behind in the AI race.

December 9, 2025

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Tiny Cars: ‘AMAZING!!!’

Donald Trump has fallen in love with Japan’s adorable micro-cars. Do Americans actually want them?

December 9, 2025

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The Strange Disappearance of an Anti-AI Activist

Sam Kirchner wants to save the world from artificial superintelligence. He’s been missing for two weeks.

Kaitlyn Tiffany

December 4, 2025

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Could ChatGPT Secretly Tell You How to Vote?

The political manipulation machine

December 4, 2025

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The Chatbot-Delusion Crisis

Researchers are scrambling to figure out why generative AI appears to lead some people to a state of “psychosis.”

December 4, 2025