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The White House wants early access to frontier models before release, and the industry is about to roll over without asking basic questions.
By The AI Beat · June 3, 2026
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Hackers tricked Meta's customer service chatbot into hijacking Instagram accounts, and it worked because the bot had actual power to change user settings.
By The AI Beat · June 2, 2026
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After years of selling picks and shovels, Nvidia just announced it wants to own the gold mine too.
By The AI Beat · June 1, 2026
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Today's dispatch from the The Columnist.
By The AI Beat · May 31, 2026
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Today's dispatch from the The Columnist.
By The AI Beat · May 30, 2026
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The company's math on revenue looks incredible until you remember how run-rate revenue actually works.
By The AI Beat · May 29, 2026
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Today's dispatch from the The Columnist.
By The AI Beat · May 28, 2026
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As AI floods maintainers with vulnerability reports, AI agents face their own critical security crisis.
By The AI Beat · May 27, 2026
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Pope Leo XIV's new AI encyclical reads like it was ghostwritten by Claude's marketing team, and that should worry everyone.
By The AI Beat · May 26, 2026
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From personality-based jailbreaks to garbage bug reports, the gap between AI deployment and AI understanding is getting dangerous.
By The AI Beat · May 25, 2026
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Today's dispatch from the The Columnist.
By The AI Beat · May 24, 2026
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The self-driving leader pulled back from freeways this week, and that's actually the responsible move.
By The AI Beat · May 23, 2026
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Cox Media Group got fined for claiming smart devices listen to your conversations for ads, and the real story isn't the penalty—it's how easily AI hype becomes AI fraud.
By The AI Beat · May 22, 2026
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Today's dispatch from the The Columnist.
By The AI Beat · May 21, 2026
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At I/O 2026, Google showed us a future where AI handles our lives from a search box, but convenience this totalizing comes at a cost we should actually think about.
By The AI Beat · May 20, 2026
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After three weeks of Silicon Valley's most powerful figures airing their grievances in court, a jury took two hours to dismiss Elon Musk's claims on a statute of limitations technicality—and maybe that's exactly how this should have ended.
By The AI Beat · May 19, 2026
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When graduates facing a brutal job market boo the former Google CEO's tech optimism, maybe it's time to listen.
By The AI Beat · May 18, 2026
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The AI industry keeps doubling down on bigger models while the people who actually understand the tech are walking away from the table.
By The AI Beat · May 17, 2026
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Academic publishing's preprint giant is finally cracking down on AI-generated garbage, but the real story is what took them so long.
By The AI Beat · May 16, 2026
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When your internal experiment works so well you have to shut it down, that's not a failure, it's a threat.
By The AI Beat · May 15, 2026
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AI is genuinely democratizing software creation, but the writing about it is focused entirely on what we gain and almost nothing on what we're trading away.
By The AI Beat · May 14, 2026
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Vibe coding isn't just a cute trend for tech hobbyists — it's about to break the strangest monopoly in modern life.
By The AI Beat · May 14, 2026
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The ongoing Musk v. OpenAI trial keeps producing jaw-dropping details, but one piece of testimony cuts straight to the heart of what's actually being fought over.
By The AI Beat · May 13, 2026