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The company isn’t exactly breaking new ground. The idea of a chatbot standing in for a human is fairly common.…

Watching the wildly popular television series Love Story took me back to a strange week in my past. One day…

Apple is allergic to nostalgia. In 2008, when the Macintosh was about to turn 25, I mentioned it to Steve…

It’s a chilly March morning in the undisclosed mid-Atlantic hotel hosting Palantir’s developer conference. The defense contractors, military officers, and…

I’ve spent the past few days asking AI companies to convince me that the prospects for AI safety have not…

Before last week the name Alap Shah didn’t ring a bell for many people. The 45-year-old financial analyst and tech…

This will not be a banner year for the real estate app Zillow. “We describe the home market as bouncing…

Anthropic is locked in a paradox: Among the top AI companies, it’s the most obsessed with safety and leads the…

It was November 12, 2016, four days after Donald Trump won his first presidential election. Aside from a few outliers…

The past year has been traumatic for many of the volunteer tech warriors of what was once called the United…

Did California lose Larry Page? The Google and Alphabet cofounder, who left day-to-day operations in 2019, has seen his net…