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Meta’s Pursuit of the Careless People Author Is Relentless and Self-Defeating

By Steven Levy
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Europe Is Fed Up and Wants Its Own AI

By Steven Levy
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Silicon Valley’s Elite Financial Advisers Say This Era of Wealth Is Different

By Lauren Goode
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Crypto Guys Bought the Answer to the CIA’s Mysterious Kryptos Sculpture

By Steven Levy
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Has Microsoft Lost Its Mojo (Again)?

By Steven Levy
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The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic

By Steven Levy
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Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search

By Steven Levy
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Companies Keep Slashing Employees’ Benefits for the Worst Reasons

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

By Steven Levy
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You Found Satoshi? Let’s See the Receipts

By Steven Levy
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Apple's Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product

By Steven Levy
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AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body

By Steven Levy
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This Startup Wants You to Pay Up to Talk With AI Versions of Human Experts

By Steven Levy
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John Perry Barlow, JFK Jr., and a Night of Grief I Can’t Forget

By Steven Levy
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Apple Still Plans to Sell iPhones When It Turns 100

By Steven Levy
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At Palantir’s Developer Conference, AI Is Built to Win Wars

By Steven Levy
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The Iran War Is Throwing Global Shipping Into Chaos

By Steven Levy
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When AI Companies Go to War, Safety Gets Left Behind

By Steven Levy
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Wall Street Has AI Psychosis

By Steven Levy
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AI Safety Meets the War Machine

By Steven Levy
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Zillow Has Gone Wild—for AI

By Steven Levy
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The Only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Apocalypse Is … Claude?

By Steven Levy
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After Minneapolis, Tech CEOs Are Struggling to Stay Silent

By Steven Levy
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The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up

By Steven Levy
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