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Those Viral Bodega Peptides Aren’t Actually Peptides

Shooting Blanks

Those Viral Bodega Peptides Aren’t Actually Peptides

Sophie Kleeman and Kate Knibbs

Lawmakers Want States to Crack Down on Flock Cameras—or Pay the Price

Herding Flocks

Lawmakers Want States to Crack Down on Flock Cameras—or Pay the Price

Paresh Dave

AI Leaders Are Calling for a Slowdown. Trump’s Team Says It’s on Them

Whoa Now

AI Leaders Are Calling for a Slowdown. Trump’s Team Says It’s on Them

Isabella Ward

‘I Like My Big Rat Wife’: Meet the People Using Chatbots to Write Custom Fiction

Story Time

‘I Like My Big Rat Wife’: Meet the People Using Chatbots to Write Custom Fiction

Joel Khalili

The US Government Launched 3 Previously Unreported Investigations of Polymarket Trades

Inside Information

The US Government Launched 3 Previously Unreported Investigations of Polymarket Trades

Kate Knibbs

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Backchannel

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Lauren Goode

Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone

Control Freaks

Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone

Will Knight

OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal

Model Behavior

OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal

Maxwell Zeff

Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us All?

Uncanny Valley

Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us All?

Brian Barrett, Leah Feiger, and Will Knight

The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’

Red Alert

The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’

Maxwell Zeff

San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads

Cease and Desist

San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads

Matt Burgess

UK Lawmakers Are Freaking Out Over AI’s Summer of Chaos

UK Lawmakers Are Freaking Out Over AI’s Summer of Chaos

Isabella Ward

I Let an AI Agent Hack All My Gadgets—and I’d Do It Again

AI Lab

I Let an AI Agent Hack All My Gadgets—and I’d Do It Again

Will Knight

A Stealth Startup Thinks It Just Hacked the Memory Shortage

Chip Stack

A Stealth Startup Thinks It Just Hacked the Memory Shortage

Lauren Goode

Muse, Meta’s New Personal AI Agent, Needs You to Trust It

Pivot to Privacy

Muse, Meta’s New Personal AI Agent, Needs You to Trust It

Lily Hay Newman and Maxwell Zeff

Apple and Google Miss Deadline to Block Child Nudity on Their Phones in the UK

Big Fail

Apple and Google Miss Deadline to Block Child Nudity on Their Phones in the UK

Isabella Ward

OpenAI Just Claimed a Huge Math Discovery. Some Academics Are Crying Foul

Math Problem

OpenAI Just Claimed a Huge Math Discovery. Some Academics Are Crying Foul

Will Knight and Maxwell Zeff

Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive

Backchannel

Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive

Steven Levy

Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time

Labor Entry

Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time

Paresh Dave

Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today

Downtime

Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today

Lily Hay Newman