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    What Does OpenAI Want With a Social Network?OpenAI is working on its own social network. Why?
    By John Herrman
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    How Worried Should We Be About a $3,500 iPhone?Tariff-spooked Americans are panic-buying at the Apple Store.
    By John Herrman
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    Trump Is Turning the Entire Market Into a Meme StockTrusting the president’s plan at this point requires GameStop levels of irrational exuberance.
    By John Herrman
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    The Group Chat Is a Place to Trade Jokes or Attack YemenOne form of communication has taken over the world.
    By John Herrman
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    Elon Musk Has Become Too Toxic for YouTubeIt was once good business to flaunt Teslas online. Now it’s good business to destroy them.
    By John Herrman
  7. chapters
    In Pursuit of the Bitcoin GodYears of studying Satoshi Nakamoto led me to a new prime suspect. What if crypto’s creator isn’t the benign figure people want him to be?
    By Benjamin Wallace
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    What Happens When AI Joins Every Meeting?It helps you out. It’s also watching.
    By John Herrman
  9. the money game
    Shayne Coplan’s Big Bet Is Paying OffThe 26-year-old upended political polling on his way to creating the billion-dollar betting platform Polymarket. But is it legal?
    By Jen Wieczner
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    Big Tech Companies Can’t Quite Figure Out How to Market AIIs AI supposed to write emails or replace your personality?
    By John Herrman
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    Musk, DOGE, and the AI-Fueled Plot to Fire EverybodyMAGA takes a cue from big tech and embraces post-human politics.
    By John Herrman
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    Is Google Eating Reddit?The Google-Reddit partnership has definitely been mutually beneficial, but it’s also showing signs of strain.
    By John Herrman
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    Big Tech’s Other Big Battle Is for the BoxThe tech giants all say they’re chasing AGI, but they’re also fighting over something we all use that’s already here.
    By John Herrman
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    The DOGE Rampage Is Also a Bailout for Elon MuskElon Musk’s incursion into the federal government is unprecedented. It’s also pretty good news for his companies.
    By John Herrman
  15. social studies
    Do Yondr Pouches Really Work?School districts love the “phone prisons.” Students have already figured out how to skirt them.
    By Juno DeMelo
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    The Trade War Comes For TemuAmericans flocked to Temu and Shein. Trump’s tariffs could destroy them.
    By John Herrman
  17. roundup
    US-MARKETS-ECONOMY
    7 Ways to Think About the DeepSeek AI Freak-outThe Chinese AI firm’s new model is rattling the tech industry and the stock market. Here’s some of the smart commentary on why.
    By Chas Danner
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    What Are AI ‘Agents’ For?So far, OpenAI’s new ‘Operator’ needs more help than it provides.
    By John Herrman
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    Big Tech Is in a Devil’s Bargain With Donald TrumpTech moguls yearn for the hands-off approach of the ’90s. The reality will be something different.
    By John Herrman
  20. tiktok
    A content creator on TikTok, holds a sign outside the U.S. Supreme Court Building
    How Long Will TikTok Return For? UpdatesThe app is back after Trump promised to order a temporary reprieve.
    By Intelligencer Staff
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    TikTok shut down in US following ban
    Tell Me You’re Grieving TikTok Without Telling Me You’re Grieving TikTokWatching TikTok get banned, then agonizing over its possible comeback, feels simultaneously embarrassing and devastating.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  22. screen time
    Everybody’s Trying to Figure Out Who Banned TikTokDonald Trump, Joe Biden, and Congress all want to pass the buck on this thing.
    By John Herrman
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    The ‘Tech-Industrial’ Oligarchy Is Already HereTrump’s inauguration will provide plenty of visual evidence for Joe Biden’s warning.
    By John Herrman
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    Social Media Is for Consuming Disasters, Not Surviving ThemAlgorithmic feeds have stripped places like X and Instagram of their usefulness in a crisis.
    By John Herrman
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    The Two Competing Futures of Self-Driving CarsAutonomous fleets versus a Hertz in every garage.
    By John Herrman
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    Tiktok’s Final Appeal to the Supreme Court Didn’t Go Too WellIt’s looking like the ban is going to happen, and probably right before Donald Trump once again takes office.
    By John Herrman
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    Mark Zuckerberg’s Eternal Apology TourLike clockwork, every four years, he bends the knee and promises to change his — and his company’s — ways.
    By John Herrman
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    When Chatbots Choose ViolenceDisturbing new lawsuits show what a family-scale AI apocalypse might look like.
    By John Herrman
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    Meta’s Big Bet on BotsMeta says to expect AI “profiles” on Facebook and Instagram.
    By John Herrman
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    The Chaos Lurking in Apple’s Most-Popular Apps ListStability has reigned for a while, but next year promises to change all that.
    By John Herrman
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    The Future of AI Shouldn’t Be Taken at Face ValueWhy AI is so expensive and OpenAI’s pursuit of AGI is all about money.
    By John Herrman
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    Why YouTube Should Cut Off Its ThumbnailsThe platform is testing a ban on “egregious” clickbait titles and thumbnails. Why not go all the way?
    By John Herrman
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    Luigi Mangione’s Full Story Isn’t OnlineHis social media presence was carefully managed — in keeping with a new era on the internet.
    By John Herrman
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    The Bluesky app on a mobile phone.
    Democrats Are Leaving X. But X Left Them First.To the extent it’s a place where anyone can get a message out, it’s on narrow new terms for a narrow new audience.
    By John Herrman
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    How YouTube Ate PodcastingWith some help from TikTok.
    By John Herrman
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    Why the Government’s Google Breakup Plan Is Such a Big DealCleaving off Chrome could reset the web as we know it.
    By John Herrman
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    Big Tech’s Loyalty EraTech leaders are bracing for, and warming to, their industry’s Trumpian, loyalty-based future.
    By John Herrman
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    Why Reddit Is Blowing UpThe social media site is making money and growing fast. It can thank new search traffic.
    By John Herrman
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    Polymarket Loves Trump. But Is It Just About the Vibes?Users on prediction markets are piling money into bets on Trump. They also can’t stop arguing with one another.
    By John Herrman
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    Get Ready for a Lot More Bots on Social MediaWhy Meta is filling our feeds with bots.
    By John Herrman
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    Microsoft Has an OpenAI ProblemThe risk the company faces with its AI alignment strategy isn’t runaway superintelligence — it’s rogue OpenAI.
    By John Herrman
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    Is Reddit the Future of Crisis Communications?It’s one of the only well-moderated spaces left online where the government (and brands) can get a signal through all the noise.
    By John Herrman
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    How Spooked Should We Be by AI Ghost Stories?The viral folklore about self-aware chatbots and AI-generated podcast hosts who fear death is not what it appears to be.
    By John Herrman
  44. up in the air
    The Flying Car Is Finally Here. It’s Slightly Illegal.How the inventors of a new generation of aircraft are outsmarting the feds.
    By Jeff Wise
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    The Return of the TV ChannelDisney+ and Peacock are the latest streamers to bring back good old-fashioned TV channels.
    By John Herrman
  46. life in pixels
    Drowning in SlopA thriving underground economy is clogging the internet with AI garbage — and it’s only going to get worse.
    By Max Read
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    Does Anyone Need an AI Social Network?So far, SocialAI’s feed of chatbots doesn’t have much to say.
    By John Herrman
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    Is That AI? Or Does It Just Suck?AI is now associated with things that are a little bit unbelievable, a little bit generic, or just sort of off.
    By John Herrman
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    Taylor Swift and the Power of the AI BacklashAI is already changing the world — by making people worried and annoyed about AI.
    By John Herrman
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    New Apple AirPods are displayed during an Apple special event at Apple headquarters on September 9.
    Think of the New Apple AirPods and Watch As Medical DevicesForget the new iPhone — Apple is getting into hearing aids.
    By John Herrman
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    The AI Guys Are Driving Themselves MadAI influencers are falling for hoaxes and scams as they wait impatiently for superintelligence to arrive.
    By John Herrman
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