AI Safety Meets the War Machine

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AI Safety Meets the War Machine

When Anthropic last year became the first major AI company cleared by the US government for classified use—including military applications—the news didn’t make...

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Zillow Has Gone Wild—for AI

This will not be a banner year for the real estate app Zillow. “We describe the home market as bouncing along the bottom,”...

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The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up

The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned out to be the year...

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You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong

Last month, journalist Karen Hao posted a Twitter thread in which she acknowledged that there was a substantial error in her blockbuster book...

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Here’s What You Should Know About Launching an AI Startup

Julie Bornstein thought it would be a cinch to implement her idea for an AI startup. Her résumé in digital commerce is impeccable:...

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There Is Only One AI Company. Welcome to the Blob

It all began, as many things do, with Elon Musk. In the early 2010s he realized that AI was on a track to...

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Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap?

I recently vacationed in Italy. As one does these days, I ran my itinerary past GPT-5 for sightseeing suggestions and restaurant recommendations. The...

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Sam Altman Says the GPT-5 Haters Got It All Wrong

OpenAI’s August launch of its GPT-5 large language model was somewhat of a disaster. There were glitches during the livestream, with the model...

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I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now

A billion dollars isn’t what it used to be—but it still focuses the mind. At least it did for me when I heard...

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Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias

On November 2, 2022, I attended a Google AI event in New York City. One of the themes was responsible AI. As I...

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