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Chatbots have started to reshape the web
New data from Adobe offers evidence for a big shift away from traditional search engines. Will the internet's vast public commons survive?
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Manus of the hour
What the hype cycle around a new Chinese AI model tells us about the state of competition in agents
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There are probably too many AI companies now
Everyone has a model. Almost no one has a business
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America's new AI safety plan is “let’s see what happens”
At the Paris AI Action Summit, J.D. Vance delivers anything but
Google slings more AI at the web
A leaked AI mode for search gives publishers fresh reason for worry — and maybe reasons to strike a deal
Google is ready to work on AI weapons now
The company’s promise to avoid building AI applications that cause harm has been deleted
OpenAI
ChatGPT's deep research might be the first good agent
OpenAI's new research tool still makes mistakes — but in its speed and average quality of analysis, it represents a remarkable step forward
DeepSeek
DeepSeek is also a design story
The company’s decision to expose chain of thought is a surprise hit — and a reminder of how far AI product teams have left to go
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Four big reasons to worry about DeepSeek (and four reasons to calm down)
The Chinese AI upstart has rattled Silicon Valley — but how much the game has changed remains to be seen
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15 predictions for 2025
PLUS: What I got right and wrong about 2024
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What I learned from the “AI is fake and sucks” debate
Gary Marcus (and many others) respond
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The phony comforts of AI skepticism
It’s fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it’s real and dangerous
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AI companies hit a scaling wall
OpenAI, Google and others are seeing diminishing returns to building ever-bigger models — but that may not matter as much as you would guess
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Notion brings AI to email
Is artificial intelligence the solution to inbox overload?
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The AI agents have arrived
Artificial intelligence can now compute for you on your behalf — and the web is never going to be the same
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Anthropic makes an AI safety plan
Can responsible scaling policies bring the future into alignment?