AI Will Never Be Conscious
The Blake Lemoine incident is remembered today as a high‑water mark of AI hype. It thrust the whole idea of ...
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China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own
Jade Gu met her boyfriend online. Gu, who’s 26 and studies art theory in Beijing, was playing on her phone ...
Thousands of Companies Are Driving China’s AI Boom. A Government Registry Tracks Them All
When DeepSeek burst onto the global stage in January 2025, it seemed to appear out of nowhere. But the large ...
Your First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be Chinese
But language models can only do so much, and what robots need most urgently is a new kind of model ...
How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts
At the start of 2024, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI were united against military use of their AI tools. But ...
Want This Hearing Aid? Well, Who Do You Know?
“I’ve tried different brands of hearing aids, and they're good, but they're not this good,” says Martin in a Zoom ...
OpenAI’s Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It
In case OpenAI’s structure couldn’t get any weirder—a nonprofit in charge of a for-profit that’s become a public benefit corporation—it ...
All of My Employees Are AI Agents, and So Are My Executives
Hearing all this, I started to wonder: Was the AI employee age upon us already? And even, could I be ...
Alex Karp Goes to War
Palantir's CEO is good with ICE and says he defends human rights. But will Israel and Trump ever go too ...
Millions Are Confessing Their Secrets to Chatbots. Is That Therapy?
I.Quentin in the DesertQuentin awoke on a thin mattress, beneath a collection of scavenged blankets, in an abandoned RV deep ...
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