Mia Sato reports on Mark Zuckerberg’s concession that TikTok beat him. Facebook (Meta) is apparently testing the final stage of Instagram’s full transition away from your friends and into a discovery platform. That will be my last active day on Instagram.

Less than three months after token-maxxing rightfully got shredded by the press, the companies using AI, and starting with the CFOs, the need to get people churning on tokens (for some reason) hasn’t subsided. Now AI companies are compromising their own harnesses to drive unnecessary token use. As I keep saying, this is a transformative […]

ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.

Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.

The president of the encrypted messaging app says autonomous AI agents, device scanning and digital advertising are converging into a new architecture of surveillance.

I was up this morning making the kids’ pancakes and browsing the Pope’s new encyclical (as one does on a Monday) and saw this paragraph. Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where […]

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.

Our investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and, for the first time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure. The findings expose h...

Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, has been developing its next major model using several thousand Nvidia’s state-of-the-art Blackwell chips which the U.S. has forbidden from being exported to China, a...

OpenAI, which in recent weeks has appeared to fall behind Google in AI development, is fighting back with a new large language model codenamed Garlic.Last week, OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Ch...

As US educators embrace AI in the classroom, firms are selling software to flag mentions of self-harm, raising concerns over privacy and control.

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.