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Whether the cyber-pocalypse is here or not, it’s time to change your passwords.

Whether the cyber-pocalypse is here or not, it’s time to change your passwords.


ChatGPT can give decent financial advice — to the people who need it the least.


How “deadbots” might reshape grief.


Understand how ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E are transforming our world — from text and image generation to how we live and work.
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What to know before giving your life over to Muse, Dots, or any other AI agent.


Trump wants the GOP to be a pro-AI party. Ron DeSantis has a different idea.


Can data center developers talk their way out of a backlash?


After a loss in Wisconsin’s gubernatorial primary, Hong is focused on ensuring a Democratic trifecta in the state.


When tech CEOs say their products might kill us all, are they trying to sell us something?


New genetic testing offers us the chance to create superbabies. It can come with unintended consequences.




Claude’s creators are worried the LLM could be conscious. The Catholic Church disagrees.


More kids are using AI for companionship — and it’s making them lonely.


China has its own AI worries — but a robot apocalypse isn’t one of them.


The addictive power of “live auction” shopping, explained.


We asked an etiquette expert how to use your phone around other people.


A Sunrise Movement co-founder is running for Congress. He’s talking more about data centers than climate.


The anonymous online network harassing Maddie Kowalski, explained.


The White House sees a fast-growing AI school network as the future. But a conservative tech backlash is building.


Trump, Xi, and the UN are all talking AI this week. Here’s the question they need to answer.

Health insurers are deploying AI to deny claims — and putting people’s health at risk.


What Big Tech’s sci-fi dream reveals about the infrastructure America actually needs.


A physician explains how AI is helping in the doctor’s office and the lab.


The Pentagon wants AI models that can’t say no.

Claude, design a doomsday bioweapon. Make no mistakes.


Writer Jasmine Sun offers some clarity on the AI panic.


Opting out isn’t always possible, but there are ways to minimize your exposure.


David Sacks has clashed with safety advocates. He’s no fan of Anthropic or OpenAI. Here’s what he wants.


America’s infrastructure was already hackable. Then came AI.


Death is scary and all. But there are non-speculative problems with AI we should be addressing now.


AI can’t fix all the infrastructure aid cuts broke. But maybe it can help.

The AI risk debate has become pointlessly tribal. There’s a way out.


AI experts want guardrails. Trump wants to go full speed ahead.


The leaders of several AI companies called for new safeguards over the weekend. Here are three things government could do.


Warnings about AI killing many people, or everyone, are going viral. Here are 3 things the government could do.


There’s a bright side to the enshittification of everything.


It’s time to end the mandatory QR code.


And politicians can’t run away fast enough.


Screens have atrophied our reading muscles. Here’s how to get them back.


Why the social media giant is trying to rope its competitors into a settlement.


The AI buildout is bruised but still far from broken.


A high-stakes battle over the future of “killer robots” comes down to semantics.


It’s possible to harness technology while respecting an older person’s privacy and autonomy.


It offers a way to reset.