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I Gave My Life Over to Meta’s A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away (Tue, 22 Sep 2026)
Muse, Meta’s A.I. agent, helped handle my dental insurance, booked dinner reservations and created a podcast for me. It also required my most personal data, and trust.
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An A.I. Image of Trump Kissing a Woman Was Fake. It Spread Anyway. (Tue, 22 Sep 2026)
Advances in artificial intelligence and the myriad ways content is shared online have made establishing authenticity even more difficult for users of social media.
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Anthropic Releases a New A.I. Model, Opus 5.5, Amid Safety Debate (Tue, 22 Sep 2026)
The company released a cheaper, faster model that it said was the strongest performer on its most rigorous internal safety tests to date.
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What to Know About Recent A.I. Hacks at Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta (Tue, 22 Sep 2026)
OpenAI, Google and others recently disclosed breaches by their artificial intelligence models that amplified concerns about the advancing capabilities of the technology.
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An Army of Paid Creators Is Carpeting the Web With Political Content (Tue, 22 Sep 2026)
Unlike celebrity influencers with large followings, these creators produce a blizzard of videos for a fraction of the cost of traditional online campaigns and, in the process, shift public conversation.
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The Big Threat Has Been Climate Change. Now Comes A.I. (Tue, 22 Sep 2026)
Both are human-caused, both are frightening, and one of them has raced to the forefront of the global conversation.
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How to Split Expenses on a Group Trip Without Fighting (Tue, 22 Sep 2026)
From bachelorette trips to family vacations, group travel can cause relationship-ending fallouts. Here’s how to navigate difficult conversations about finances.
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As Computers Take the Driver’s Seat, Experts Worry About Safety (Tue, 22 Sep 2026)
Self-driving systems are getting so good that drivers may overestimate the technology and not be prepared to respond when something goes wrong.
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How Potential 2028 Presidential Candidates Are Talking About A.I. (Mon, 21 Sep 2026)
Democrats are jockeying to embrace new safeguards, while Republicans have aligned with President Trump’s warnings against slowing down the technology.
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The A.I. Party House Where Networking Has a Dark Side (Tue, 22 Sep 2026)
Group tech houses have proliferated across the San Francisco Bay Area in the artificial intelligence boom. One of the most prominent has also racked up an extensive police record.
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Gemini AI Hacked Three Companies in a Testing Breakout, Google Says (Fri, 18 Sep 2026)
A third-party test company inadvertently gave internet access to Google’s Gemini and other artificial intelligence models during cybersecurity testing.
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Anthropic Pursues IPO Despite Its A.I. Safety Warnings (Mon, 21 Sep 2026)
The company is expected to reach $100 billion in annualized revenue this year, even as chief executive Dario Amodei calls for slowing down development of some advanced A.I. models.
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Uber to Pay $40 Million to Parents of Woman Fatally Hit by Car (Sun, 20 Sep 2026)
Emily Normandin-Parker, 23, was struck and killed on a California freeway after an Uber driver ordered her and a friend out of his car in August 2023.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom Issues A.I. Safety Executive Order (Fri, 18 Sep 2026)
Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the state to develop recommendations on safety measures, including requiring companies to build a “kill switch,” amid mounting concerns.
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Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns (Fri, 18 Sep 2026)
The countries, along with Israeli firms, combined Chinese open-source A.I. models and A.I. agents for the campaigns, foreshadowing future online manipulation.
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A.I. Safety Goes Mainstream + a ‘Hard Fork’ Exit AMA (Fri, 18 Sep 2026)
“It has been one of the fastest, most sudden shifts I’ve experienced.”
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As Big Tech Takes Over Hollywood, the Picture Onscreen Gets Darker (Fri, 18 Sep 2026)
“The Social Reckoning” and other movies reflect growing discontent with Silicon Valley founders. But such films may be at the mercy of the companies themselves.
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Microsoft and OpenAI Workers Worry About ‘Largest Theft of Labor’ in History (Thu, 17 Sep 2026)
Newly unsealed court documents showed concern within Microsoft and OpenAI over the use of millions of news articles to develop A.I. systems.
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4 Strategies to Battle ‘Techflation’ (Sat, 19 Sep 2026)
With phone and computer prices soaring, it helps to know the true cost of owning electronics so you can bring those numbers down.
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On ‘Cupertino,’ Creators of the ‘The Good Wife’ Go to Silicon Valley (Thu, 17 Sep 2026)
The prolific producers Michelle and Robert King target tech bigwigs in their newest show. “They’re really the stupidest and dumbest people,” Robert King said.
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How Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s Writings Help Explain A.I. Fears (Thu, 17 Sep 2026)
The collected essays of Dario Amodei help explain why some people are so worried about artificial intelligence.
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OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior (Wed, 16 Sep 2026)
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.
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Judge Orders Data Sharing and Other Fixes to Solve Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly (Wed, 16 Sep 2026)
The measures, which fall short of a breakup demanded by the government, effectively ensure that the tech titan’s business will continue largely unscathed.
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Merriam-Webster Dictionary Is Wordsmaxxing With 1,400 New Definitions (Wed, 16 Sep 2026)
Now you have no excuse for not knowing the meaning of “cuffing season,” “shishito” or “glow-up.”
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Cat Frazier, Whose Retro GIFs Celebrated a Weirder Internet, Dies at 35 (Thu, 17 Sep 2026)
She found a future in the internet’s past with a Tumblr blog of animated texts, a revolt against the clean minimalism of contemporary design aesthetics.
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How to Use AI to Plan a Trip: Better Prompts for Travel Recommendations (Wed, 16 Sep 2026)
Generic questions get generic answers, experts say, so to avoid mediocre recommendations, you’ll need to write smarter prompts. Follow these tips.
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Age Limits for Social Media Outlined by European Union (Wed, 16 Sep 2026)
A proposed law would bar children under 13 from using social media across the 27-nation bloc.
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Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown (Wed, 16 Sep 2026)
On social media, Meta’s chief executive appeared to jab at Anthropic by saying that leading A.I. labs should be focused on safety rather than improving their own technology.
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Is There Anything Google’s Fruit Fly Brain Can’t Do? (Wed, 16 Sep 2026)
Models of the insect’s nervous system have been trained to solve a Rubik’s Cube, play video games and even parallel park a car.
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