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The China Issue

AI Lab

Huawei's ‘Chip Queen’ Throws Down the Gauntlet

The Chinese company is adapting to the demise of Moore’s Law, which guides chip production. It could complicate US chip dominance.

Will Knight

Model Behavior

Former Google and Apple Researchers Launch a Startup to Build AI’s Missing Feedback Loop

Maxwell Zeff

AI Pope

Why the Vatican Invited Anthropic to the Pope’s AI Encyclical Presentation

Daniele Polidoro

Backchannel

Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search

The search giant’s AI-crafted answers are so convenient, you’ll be sucked in—to the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it.

Steven Levy

Companies Keep Slashing Employees’ Benefits for the Worst Reasons

Workers are getting worse health care, parental leave, and retirement benefits, showing once and for all that your job doesn’t love you back.

Lauren Goode

Nick Bostrom Has a Plan for Humanity’s ‘Big Retirement’

The philosopher thinks humans should pursue advanced AI and the promise of a “solved world.”

Steven Levy

You Found Satoshi? Let’s See the Receipts

Two new projects, including one from a Pulitzer-winning reporter, claim they’ve solved the mystery of Bitcoin’s creator. So why does the hunt continue?

Steven Levy

AI Lab

I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body

The coding skills of AI models are about to make it much easier to build and deploy robots.

Will Knight

Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find

In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights.

Will Knight

Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows

New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.

Will Knight

5 AI Models Tried to Scam Me. Some of Them Were Scary Good

The cyber capabilities of AI models have experts rattled. AI’s social skills may be just as dangerous.

Will Knight

Model Behavior

Can OpenAI’s ‘Master of Disaster’ Fix AI’s Reputation Crisis?

Global affairs chief Chris Lehane wants to tone down the debate over AI’s societal impacts—and get states to pass laws that won’t derail OpenAI’s meteoric rise.

Maxwell Zeff

Elon Musk Loses Landmark Lawsuit Against OpenAI

The nine-member panel took only two hours to return a verdict in favor of OpenAI on Monday, which the judge quickly adopted as her own final decision.

Paresh Dave and Maxwell Zeff

The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial

A federal jury is now deciding whether Elon Musk will win his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman—but the trial has made everyone look bad.

Maxwell Zeff and Paresh Dave

Everyone at the Musk v. Altman Trial Is Using Fancy Butt Cushions

The plaintiffs and defense have rested their cases, as well as their rear ends.

Paresh Dave

Made in China

Shein Buying Everlane Actually Makes Perfect Sense

The acquisition struck many people as a bizarre mismatch, but it's really a sign of where Chinese ecommerce giants are already going.

Louise Matsakis

The Chinese App That Puts Instagram to Shame

In the ancient city of Dali, I saw firsthand how RedNote has evolved from a lifestyle platform into the tool that powers the country’s tourism industry.

Louise Matsakis

ChatGPT Has ‘Goblin’ Mania in the US. In China It Will ‘Catch You Steadily’

OpenAI’s chatbot has some weird linguistic tics in Chinese that are driving users crazy.

Zeyi Yang

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat

Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.

Taylor Lorenz