1. screen time
    Meta’s AI Needs to Speak With YouThe company is putting chatbots everywhere so you don’t go anywhere.
    By John Herrman
  2. screen time
    The First AI Gadgets Are a Cautionary TaleThese wearable devices feel new and ambitious — and that’s the problem.
    By John Herrman
  3. screen time
    On Truth Social, Trump’s Sad Mini-MAGA, It’s 2016 ForeverIt’s a throwback to when he wasn’t president and Elon Musk hadn’t cornered the online right on X.
    By John Herrman
  4. pivot
    Pre-GRAMMY Gala - Arrivals
    Don Lemon on How Elon Musk Whacked His X ContractThe former CNN host tells Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway that Musk didn’t like being confronted with facts.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  5. what we know
    How AI Is Being Used to Influence and Disrupt the 2024 ElectionThe BBC found dozens of deep fakes showing Trump surrounded by Black supporters. It’s just one of many ways AI is being leveraged for politics.
    By Chas Danner
  7. unnatural disasters
    Corporate Greed Made the Change Healthcare Cyberattack WorseHackers have made it impossible for millions of patients to refill prescriptions or even schedule procedures by striking at a single company.
    By Chris Stanton
  8. technology
    Labor Dept. Asks Communication Companies For Increased Safety Training For Cell Tower Workers
    What We Know About the AT&T OutageAfter thousands of AT&T users were unable to make calls or send texts on Thursday morning, service was fully restored by the afternoon.
    By Nia Prater
  9. screen time
    Apple’s Vision Pro Isn’t for Everyone — But It’s Still a Home RunConsider it a revolutionary experiment to prove that goggle computing can work.
    By David Pogue
  10. technology
    No-Fun Authorities Warn Against Driving With Apple HeadsetThe federal government issued some (obvious) guidance after clips of wild Tesla drivers circulated.
    By Nia Prater
  11. screen time
    Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just BoughtIs the Vision Pro for watching movies? Working? Being alone? Collaborating? Nobody knows, really.
    By John Herrman
  12. chapters
    Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated MediaKara Swisher’s front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe.
    By Kara Swisher
  13. vision pro
    People Are Doing Some Interesting Things With the Apple Vision ProYeah, the future is going to be weird.
    By Chas Danner
  14. politics
    The Five Most Dramatic Moments From Congress’s Social-Media HearingDuring the hearing, Senator Lindsey Graham told CEOs of the top social-media companies that they have blood on their hands.
    By Nia Prater
  15. weird science
    ‘I Almost Sound Like a Crazy Person, But I Think It’s a Superconductor’Scientists are again buzzing about a potential breakthrough in superconductivity. Will this be another disappointment?
    By Jeff Wise
  16. screen time
    Shein Found Amazon’s WeaknessThe Everything Store seems to be legitimately worried about this fast-fashion upstart.
    By John Herrman
  17. screen time
    What the Hell Is Elon Musk Doing at X? 5 Theories of the CaseNot only are things not going according to plan — it can seem as though there was never much of a plan at all.
    By John Herrman
  18. technology
    OpenAI Was Never Going to Save Us From the Robot ApocalypseThe idea that a single nonprofit could ensure that AI was developed at a “safe” speed never made any sense.
    By Eric Levitz
  19. technology
    Why Was Sam Altman Fired As CEO of OpenAI?After a messy few days in the world of artificial intelligence, Altman is back as CEO at OpenAI — with a new, investor-friendly board behind him.
    By Chas Danner
  20. technology
    Sam Altman and OpenAI Are Victims of Their Own HypeThe reaction to his firing says more about the anxiety around artificial intelligence and whether it can actually make a profit.
    By John Herrman
  21. technology
    Does Elon Musk’s Media Matters Lawsuit Have a Chance?Legal experts seem far from convinced.
    By Nia Prater
  22. technology
    Sam Altman’s Job at Microsoft Will Be Harder Than EverWhat’s next after the tech coup of the century?
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  23. addicted to posting
    Advertisers Are Running From X and Elon Musk’s AntisemitismApple, IBM, and several entertainment conglomerates have pulled ads from the platform. Musk is tweeting through it.
    By Matt Stieb and Chas Danner
  24. screen time
    Is Bin Laden Really Going Viral With the Kids?An investigation.
    By John Herrman
  25. screen time
    How Meta Is Monetizing the Decline of FacebookHave you heard about WhatsApp’s aggressive new ad strategy?
    By John Herrman
  26. screen time
    What Does It Mean That Elon Musk’s New AI Chatbot Is ‘Anti-Woke’?It is useful to think of public-facing AI chatbots characters with personalities. There’s a new one in the mix.
    By John Herrman
  27. screen time
    How Big Tech Companies Really Think About AIWe’re learning a lot from what tech companies’ lawyers argue in response to the many lawsuits they face over their voracious AI models.
    By John Herrman
  28. the money game
    Confessions of a Middle-Class FounderDuring the boom times, I launched a start-up so I could become rich. Years later, I’m still looking for my exit.
    By Anonymous
  29. power
    The Most Powerful New Yorkers You’ve Never Heard Of49 people who are actually running New York City.
    By The Editors
  30. first person
    My Quest to Downsize Without Throwing Anything AwayA big old house full of belongings — could I find them a new life?
    By David Pogue
  31. screen time
    Would Anyone Really Want to Pay for TikTok?Social-media companies are suddenly interested in subscriptions, but they may be misunderstanding their audience.
    By John Herrman
  32. taboos
    The New War on Porn Is WinningLaws requiring ID checks for websites are wildly popular — and potentially fatal for the adult industry.
    By Lux Alptraum
  33. what we know
    What X CEO Linda Yaccarino Claimed at the Code ConferenceIn a tense interview, the head of Elon Musk’s social-media platform insisted everything was going great — and that she really was the CEO.
    By Chas Danner
  34. tomorrow
    Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our AgeHe insists the artificial intelligence he is creating could destroy civilization even as he hastens its advancement. Do we know enough about him?
    By Elizabeth Weil
  35. screen time
    The AI Chatbot Assistants Are Here. Do We Actually Want Them?Sometimes I just want to use my computer, not tell it what to do.
    By John Herrman
  36. stop the presses
    The Journalist and the BillionaireWalter Isaacson, schmoozy icon of the Old Media elite, has written a biography of Elon Musk, who despises all of those things.
    By Shawn McCreesh
  37. the money game
    That’s What I Call PonzinomicsWith Sam Bankman-Fried, Gisele, and a credulous Michael Lewis at the zenith of crypto hype.
    By Zeke Faux
  38. twitter
    Twitter’s New X Is Officially a Bad SignNeighbors and city building inspectors were not thrilled about Elon Musk’s giant new strobe light atop X-Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters.
    By Chas Danner
  39. technology
    All the Ways Elon Musk’s X Is Different From TwitterThe branding is wildly inconsistent, but for now the biggest changes are happening only in Musk’s dreams.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  40. fiascos
    Elon Musk Tries Forcing Twitter Users to Use Less TwitterMusk announced reading limits for all Twitter accounts over the weekend, blaming AI but punishing humans who still use Twitter.
    By Chas Danner
  41. screen time
    Apple Keeps Trying to Fix Its UsersThe company’s guilty conscience is making it nudgy.
    By John Herrman
  42. artificial intelligence
    Inside the AI FactoryAs the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.
    By Josh Dzieza
  43. screen time
    Are Apple’s New Goggles a Nightmare? Maybe.The Vision Pro — think of it as a face computer — is surreal, fascinating, unsettling, and $3,500.
    By John Herrman
  44. tomorrow
    Congress Isn’t Ready for the AI RevolutionWhat happens when millions of people lose their jobs to computers?
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  45. screen time
    The Hollywood Writers’ Strike and the Threat of AIHow did trolling about ChatGPT become the new “learn to code”?
    By John Herrman
  46. just asking questions
    The Grim New Consensus on Social Media and Teen DepressionPsychologist Jean Twenge discusses all the evidence that Instagram and TikTok are making kids miserable.
    By Benjamin Hart
  47. screen time
    Is AI Coming for Coders First?The tech industry is running a big experiment on itself.
    By John Herrman
  48. artificial intelligence
    Is AI Turning Me Into an Obsolete Machine?Everything you need to know about GPT-4 and my existential crisis.
    By Eric Levitz
  49. life in pixels
    Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse?Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland.
    By Paul Murray
  50. artificial intelligence
    You Are Not a ParrotAnd a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.
    By Elizabeth Weil
  51. pivot
    The Upside of Venture Capital’s SlowdownFewer insta-billionaires might make for healthier companies.
    By Intelligencer Staff
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