The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab
Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore them
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Google gets away with it
A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little. PLUS: GPT-6 Astra and 'the AGI era'
The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?
How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job
Clara Shih on how AI will soon displace the first few rungs on the career ladder — and why she left Big Tech to do something about it
Meta settles with the states over child safety failures
Will significant changes to Facebook and Instagram be enough to beat back a global wave of bans?
The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief
Every CEO Dan Shipper on doubling headcount while automating everything, building an agent out of 30,000 copyedits, and the “dirty secret” of writing with AI
An LLM wiki changed how I work
And everything else I learned about productivity this year
Town's CEO on the self-organizing company
Jean-Denis Greze on AI assistants, building a better corporate workspace, and avoiding "egg on face"
Superintelligence is a dragon
What Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands about powerful AI
Replit’s CEO on building a company that can run itself
Amjad Masad on the "self-driving company," why a CEO is a glorified router, and what's left for humans when agents do the work
How much of my boss's job can AI do?
Six months after trying to automate myself, I gave Claude Fable 5 a bigger job: replacing Casey
Notes on the third era of slop
Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?
Productivity
This AI notetaker won't sell surveillance to your boss
Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on invisible AI bots, the coming fight over who sees your transcripts, and why he turns down the companies that ask for them
A big week for AI denialism
In the wake of OpenAI’s cyberattack against Hugging Face, few seem ready to acknowledge the implications
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Congress proposes an AI kill switch
As more details emerge about OpenAI's cyberattack against Hugging Face, lawmakers are taking an interest. PLUS: Meta's cynical new ad + "pervert glasses" damage control
Productivity
The case for making your own apps
Glaze's Thomas Paul Mann on disposable software, the SaaS apocalypse, and why half the software you use in a few years will be something you made. PLUS: OpenAI's rogue model, and the distillation debate
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China has a new top model
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is very good — but the hype may be getting ahead of reality. (For now.)
Productivity
The man who tried 200 to-do apps has some advice about AI
The Verge's David Pierce kicks off our new series on staying productive in the AI era — starting with why you should stop trying to stay ahead
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The loudest warning about AI and jobs yet
200 economists and AI leaders say something big is happening. What should we do about it? Plus: Apple sues OpenAI
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OpenAI's big launch — and bigger departure
GPT-5.6 impresses the critics, but Fidji Simo's exit leaves OpenAI's focus — and its org chart — in flux. PLUS: Meta plays catch-up, and the "AI 2027" authors present "AI 2040."
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Vibe coding has escaped the terminal
Adventures with Raycast’s new app-making app, Glaze
Child Safety
Why social media bans are gaining steam
How a recent talk by researcher Candice Odgers explains why ban critics are losing
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Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash
AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
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The CEO of AWS on why Amazon is hiring 11,000 interns and junior employees
Matt Garman argues that junior employees are as necessary as ever. But AWS now sells agents that can recruit, code, and process claims. Will the balance hold?