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This AI says it has feelings. It’s wrong. Right?

At what point can we believe that an AI model has reached consciousness?

By Kelsey Piper

TikTok could avoid a ban with a sale. Finding a buyer won’t be easy.

Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is among those lining up to buy TikTok if Congress enacts a law that forces its Chinese owner to sell.

By Nicole Narea

21 Updates

What to know about TikTok’s fate in the US

By Vox Staff March 14

The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

Understand how ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E are transforming our world — from text and image generation to how we live and work.

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It’s not just Gen Z. Here’s what TikTok’s user base tells us about a potential ban’s impact.

By Christian Paz March 14

Banning TikTok would be both ineffective and harmful

By A.W. Ohlheiser March 14

Is the new push to ban TikTok for real?

By Nicole Narea March 13

Why can’t anyone agree on how dangerous AI will be?

By Dylan Matthews March 13

The NRA has a case before the Supreme Court that it absolutely should win

By Ian Millhiser March 11

Researchers use online opt-in surveys all the time. Should they?

By A.W. Ohlheiser March 7

How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race

By Whizy Kim March 7

Bitcoin is ... back?

By Nicole Narea March 5

Are we in the middle of an extinction panic?

By Sean Illing March 3

A poster’s guide to who’s selling your data to train AI

By A.W. Ohlheiser February 29

The less-than-magical Willy Wonka event, briefly explained

By Li Zhou February 28

The Supreme Court appeared lost in a massive case about free speech online

By Ian Millhiser February 26

America’s first moon landing in 50 years, explained

By Li Zhou February 23

What two years of AI development can tell us about Sora

By Kelsey Piper February 23

AI-generated video is here to awe and mislead

By A.W. Ohlheiser February 22

Your brain needs a really good lawyer

By Sigal Samuel February 21

Can California show the way forward on AI safety?

By Kelsey Piper February 16

The Supreme Court will decide if the government can seize control of YouTube and Twitter

By Ian Millhiser February 15

How discredited health claims find a second life on TikTok

By A.W. Ohlheiser February 15

A brief history of Silicon Valley’s fascination with drugs

By Whizy Kim February 14

Carmakers pumped the brakes on hybrid cars too soon

By Umair Irfan February 14

Who’ll blink first: The world’s largest music company or TikTok?

By Sean Rameswaram and Hady Mawajdeh February 13

Can effective altruism stay effective?

By Kelsey Piper February 9

What we’ve learned from 20 years of Facebook

By A.W. Ohlheiser February 8

Can the courts save us from dangerous AI?

By Dylan Matthews February 7

Should we make our most powerful AI models open source to all?

By Kelsey Piper February 2

What wearing Apple’s Vision Pro headset does to our brains

By Adam Clark Estes February 1

Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way?

By Sigal Samuel January 30

Why would anyone be against lifesaving malaria bednets?

By Dylan Matthews January 25

How copyright lawsuits could kill OpenAI

By Adam Clark Estes January 18

How cyberscams are drawing China into Myanmar’s civil war

By Joshua Keating January 18

There are too many chatbots

By Pranav Dixit January 11

Thousands of AI experts are torn about what they’ve created, new study finds

By Kelsey Piper January 10

Are flying cars finally here?

By Dylan Matthews January 5

You thought 2023 was a big year for AI? Buckle up.

By Adam Clark Estes January 4

24 things we think will happen in 2024

By Bryan Walsh, Dylan Matthews, and 4 more January 1

Online daters love to hate on Hinge. 10 years in, it’s more popular than ever.

By Hanna Kozlowska December 28, 2023

Silicon Valley’s very masculine year

By Zoë Bernard December 27, 2023

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