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‘We’re Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI’
In the summer of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and the chief scientist of OpenAI, was meeting with a group of new researchers at the company. By all traditional metrics, Sutskever should have felt...
View ArticleWhy Are There So Many ‘Alternative Devices’ All of a Sudden?
On a recent commute to work, I texted my distant family about our fantasy baseball league, which was nice because I felt connected to them for a second. Then I switched apps and became enraged by a...
View ArticleAt Least Two Newspapers Syndicated AI Garbage
At first glance, “Heat Index” appears as inoffensive as newspaper features get. A “summer guide” sprawling across more than 50 pages, the feature, which was syndicated over the past week in both the...
View ArticleWhat AI Thinks It Knows About You
Large language models such as GPT, Llama, Claude, and DeepSeek can be so fluent that people feel it as a “you,” and it answers encouragingly as an “I.” The models can write poetry in nearly any given...
View ArticleOpenAI’s Ambitions Just Became Crystal Clear
Sam Altman is done with keyboards and screens. All that swiping and typing and scrolling—too much potential friction between you and ChatGPT.Earlier today, OpenAI announced its intentions to solve this...
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How to Disappear
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.You could easily mistake Alec Harris for a spy or an escaped prisoner, given all of the tradecraft he devotes to...
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Google’s New AI Puts Breasts on Minors—And J. D. Vance
Sorry to tell you this, but Google’s new AI shopping tool appears eager to give J. D. Vance breasts. Allow us to explain.This week, at its annual software conference, Google released an AI tool called...
View ArticleWhat Are People Still Doing on X?
This has been a banner month for X. Last week, the social network’s built-in chatbot, Grok, became strangely obsessed with false claims about “white genocide” in South Africa—allegedly because someone...
View ArticleOpenAI Can Stop Pretending
OpenAI is a strange company for strange times. Valued at $300 billion—roughly the same as seven Fords or one and a half PepsiCos—the AI start-up has an era-defining product in ChatGPT and is racing to...
View ArticleIt’s the End of the World (And It’s Their Fault)
It’s late morning on a Monday in March and I am, for reasons I will explain momentarily, in a private bowling alley deep in the bowels of a $65 million mansion in Utah. Jesse Armstrong, the showrunner...
View ArticleBig Tech’s AI Endgame Is Coming Into Focus
If Google has its way, there will be no search bars, no search terms, no searching (at least not by humans). The very tool that has defined the company—and perhaps the entire internet—for nearly three...
View ArticleThe Super Bowl of Internet Beefs
The sun rises every morning. Spring turns to summer. Water is wet. Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s relationship has ended with a post about Jeffrey Epstein.This was inevitable. When Elon Musk attached...
View ArticleTrump’s Crypto Playbook Is Now Clear
The world of crypto can feel impenetrable. The basic technology is complicated enough, but the subculture—with its own particular argot and decorum—is what’s truly forbidding. Even if you’re not quite...
View ArticleA Computer Wrote My Mother’s Obituary
The funeral director said “AI” as if it were a normal element of memorial services, like caskets or flowers. Of all places, I had not expected artificial intelligence to follow me into the small,...
View ArticleGood Taste Is More Important Than Ever
There’s a lesson I once learned from a CEO—a leader admired not just for his strategic acumen but also for his unerring eye for quality. He’s renowned for respecting the creative people in his company....
View ArticleThe Newspaper That Hired ChatGPT
For more than 20 years, print media has been a bit of a punching bag for digital-technology companies. Craigslist killed the paid classifieds, free websites led people to think newspapers and magazines...
View ArticleI’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is (Again)
One hallmark of our current moment is that when an event happens, there is little collective agreement on even basic facts. This, despite there being more documentary evidence than ever before in...
View ArticleTrump’s Deportations Aren’t What They Seem
From the beginning, Donald Trump’s approach to deportations has been about both removing people from the country and the spectacle of removing people from the country. If any doubt lingered about the...
View ArticleThe Tesla Brain Drain
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Before DOGE, there was Twitter. In 2023, Elon Musk seemed too distracted by his latest venture to run the...
View ArticleWhy Would the Trump Family Want to Run a Phone Company?
The Trumps are doing phones now. This week, the Trump Organization announced its own cellphone service called Trump Mobile, as well as a gold-colored smartphone called the T1, which will purportedly be...
View ArticleThe Entire Internet Is Reverting to Beta
A car that accelerates instead of braking every once in a while is not ready for the road. A faucet that occasionally spits out boiling water instead of cold does not belong in your home. Working...
View ArticleI See Your Smartphone-Addicted Life
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Unlike nearly 98 percent of Americans under the age of 50, I don’t have a smartphone. Actually, I’ve never had a...
View ArticleThe Amazonification of Everything, Now as a Video Game
Amazon delivery can be tough, unglamorous work. Workers must often reckon with complicated geography, demanding bosses, ever more biblical weather, and schedules that force time-conscious drivers to...
View ArticleElon Musk Is Playing God
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Updated at 2:28 p.m. ET on June 24, 2025In April, Ezibon Khamis was dispatched to Akobo, South Sudan, to...
View ArticleThe End of Publishing as We Know It
When tech companies first rolled out generative-AI products, some critics immediately feared a media collapse. Every bit of writing, imagery, and video became suspect. But for news publishers and...
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