The Only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Apocalypse Is … Claude?
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The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up
The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned…
There Is Only One AI Company. Welcome to the Blob
It all began, as many things do, with Elon Musk. In the early 2010s he realized that AI…
Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap?
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Sam Altman Says the GPT-5 Haters Got It All Wrong
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I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
A billion dollars isn’t what it used to be—but it still focuses the mind. At least it did…