OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were driving us toward Google Zero, and they did it anyway. 

Matthew Kirschenbaum announces the arrival of the “textpocalypse,” and considers what it will mean for liberal societies.

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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Maybe consuming meaningless content is the only way to be free online.

​"How much more is there that we don't know about?" asked one historian after it was revealed that OpenAI had buried reports that its AI agents had hijacked a German website without their knowledge.

You really can just say anything on SEC filings now.

German artist Simon Weckert has designed a shirt meant to trick AI-integrated surveillance cameras into looking right past him.

Companion bots are being regulated over worries they foster ‘emotional dependence’ and young people could stop marrying and having families

Quantifying our lives is easier than it’s ever been. But a philosopher of games warns that external metrics and data can never capture what’s truly important.

In a random sample of 10,000 webpages collected in July 2026, one-in-ten show signs of being written or substantially edited by AI.

Meta's AI codec was used for the compression.

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg is the latest Big Tech name to pen a letter thousands of words long about AI.

As algorithms as much as manifestos play an increasingly important role in politics, Minnie Stephenson examines how the new UK Prime Minister is creating his personal brand in the influencer age.

Many baby boomers see AI as a revolutionary tool, while young people see it as taking away their agency.

Yearning for the ten-fingered hands and deformed horse glitches of old AI image models? You're experiencing nostalgia compression.

Take-home midterm row sharpens fears that the tools are dulling minds and easing cheating

“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

How companies are gaming the chatbot internet

The artists talk process, slop, and why optimism and pessimism don’t quite cover it.

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AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?

The transition from small hunter-gatherer societies into complex civilizations gave rise to the first Axial Age. Today, the planetary polycrisis of climate chaos, mass migration, increasing warfare and...

AI now makes it possible to communicate with the dead. But these digital avatars raise significant ethical questions about our relationship with mortality.

A review of tens of thousands of admissions essays at a selective college show an increase in homogeneous language after AI tools became available in 2022.

Torizon Telecom takes retro game art to a new, literal level.

The 88-year-old Japanese physician swapped autopsies for popular science writing. In his best-seller, he argues that we have vast amounts of information but fail to understand one another because of an...

The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what’s...

“And so perfect parallel constructions fill the lecture halls, the take-home tests, the school newspapers, and perhaps even the idiom of student chatter.”

Al Warburton sees new world model architectures as AI’s teen goth phase.

Anthropic blames sci-fi for AI behavior

A software engineer wanted to resist the usual algorithms. So he created his own—and transformed his whole existence.

Chatbot dependence is reportedly affecting hundreds of thousands of people every week, leading to depression, breakdown and even death. As tech lawsuits stack up, what needs to be done to make AI safe?

New laws are targeting not just 3D-printed weapons, but the digital files, platforms, and machines that create them, raising questions about innovation and who decides what can be made. As a longtime...

The panic isn’t just about spans that seem too short.

Artists and writers argue scrappy nature of self-published booklets is incompatible with artificial intelligence

Since rising to public prominence, the manosphere has been treated as if it’s just a niche corner of the internet. But those days are long gone.

AI doesn’t just want your eyeballs, it wants your emotions

David Silver has a new billion-dollar company that aims to build AI “superlearners.”

A viral red carpet moment shone light on a group of hunky Instagram influencers—and the followers who are too horny to care that they’re not real.

The widespread use of AI chatbots are allowing us to offload much of our thinking, slowly deteriorating our cognitive skills.

In this week’s newsletter: the rise of misogyny around the world; the Sudan war enters its fourth year; and a key vote on slave trade reparations