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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




Access Denied
The Chinese Government Just Got the World’s Largest Digital Rights Conference Canceled
Vittoria Elliott and Zeyi Yang














Uncanny Valley
Uncanny Valley: Pentagon vs. ‘Woke’ Anthropic, Agentic vs. Mimetic, and Trump vs. State of the Union
Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger




Zero Aloha
Salesforce Workers Circulate Open Letter Urging CEO Marc Benioff to Denounce ICE
Lauren Goode