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Chris Stokel-Walker

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How Nvidia’s Hugging Face deal would reshape the open AI ecosystem

Hugging Face has become the industry’s de facto hub for open models. Developers are watching what happens if the dominant AI chipmaker takes control.

27.08.2026 2

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AI is making your gadgets more expensive and less powerful

A global memory crunch is forcing hardware makers to raise prices, cut components, or both.

27.08.2026 2

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First social media came after teens. Now AI is doing the same thing

A major lawsuit against Meta hit the same week OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens. Why do stronger protections so often arrive only after mass...

21.08.2026 10

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Why we love to hate Flock

The license plate reader company has become a lightning rod for surveillance concerns. But getting rid of Flock doesn’t necessarily get rid of the...

14.08.2026 8

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AI crawlers from Meta and Alibaba almost destroyed a volunteer-run LGBT history archive

The site’s founder says bots linked to major tech companies drove up his hosting costs and forced him to spend nights learning how to keep them out.

13.08.2026 7

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A Former Starbucks Employee Met His Co-Founder in a Mosh Pit. Their Coffee Brand Became a $900 Million Empire

10.08.2026 10

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Zillow’s Founder Built 3 Iconic Companies by Asking 1 Simple Question

07.08.2026 10

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Yelp’s First Product Was a Flop. Then Users Found 1 Hidden Link That Changed Everything

06.08.2026 10

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Trump’s AI investments are turning Washington into a VC firm

The administration is taking equity stakes in chip, quantum, and AI companies.

05.08.2026 8

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Why the Clif Bar Founder’s Smartest Move Was Walking Away From a $120 Million Payday

05.08.2026 10

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Where are Elon Musk’s former DOGE staffers now?

The key figures behind DOGE have moved into federal agencies, Republican politics, and a new wave of AI and defense startups.

04.08.2026 10

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Yvon Chouinard Was Destroying the Mountains He Loved. He Made 1 Painful Decision That Built the Patagonia Empire

04.08.2026 9

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Before LinkedIn Had 1.3 Billion Users, It Had 1 Very Awkward Problem

03.08.2026 10

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The White House is fixated on China copying U.S. AI. Experts say that’s the wrong threat

As American models display increasingly autonomous behavior, officials are focusing on “distillation,” a common industry practice that critics say...

03.08.2026 10

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Under Armour’s Founder Once Bet His Last $2,000 in Atlantic City. Now He’s Making an Even Bigger Bet on the Brand’s Comeback

31.07.2026 10

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How Fitbit Went From Inc. 5000 Star to a $2.1 Billion Google Acquisition

How Fitbit Went From Inc. 5000 Star to a $2.1 Billion Google Acquisition Fitbit started with a simple pixelated flower that rewarded movement. Less...

30.07.2026 10

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She Wanted to Teach Kids History. Her Idea Became a $700 Million Business

29.07.2026 10

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Claude users’ shared conversations were showing up in Google searches

Thousands of chats, some containing potentially sensitive information, were indexed after users published shareable links that they may not have...

28.07.2026 20

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Kimi K3 is exposing cracks in Trump’s AI coalition

The Chinese model’s rise has ignited a fight over open-source AI and whether Washington should protect America’s frontier labs.

22.07.2026 10

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Trump’s proposed ban on Kimi and other Chinese AI models could strengthen Beijing’s hand

The U.S. risks alienating countries that are uneasy about relying on products controlled by a small number of American AI companies.

21.07.2026 10

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Is China replacing the U.S. as the world’s AI touchpoint thanks to Kimi K3?

Social media has been ablaze with eye-popping demonstrations of the model’s prowess.

20.07.2026 10

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How AI could unleash a flood of zero-day vulnerabilities

CrowdStrike president Mike Sentonas warns that frontier models may sharply reduce the time between a software flaw’s discovery and its exploitation,...

16.07.2026 20

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Physical media is dying. So is the idea that you own what you buy

Sony’s digital-only PlayStation points to a weaker bargain for consumers.

06.07.2026 10

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Our interest in AI slop is hitting a ceiling

A new analysis of the creative economy, published in the online repository arXiv and part of a new book, suggests AI-generated content may now account...

06.07.2026 30

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Amazon’s big Prime Day pitch is its AI assistant. Is it working?

As Amazon pushes Rufus and Alexa deeper into online shopping, early data suggests AI is driving sales. But shoppers may be using the tools more to...

25.06.2026 20

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One fake web page can be enough to trick AI shopping recommendations

A single fake web page might be enough to make an AI system recommend a product that does not exist.

23.06.2026 10

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Buzzy tech IPOs are overwhelming retail trading platforms

Retail investors reportedly requested $100 billion in shares. But as trading platforms strained under demand, many mom-and-pop buyers were allocated...

15.06.2026 10

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Anthropic’s new AI model is powerful, dazzling—and about to get really expensive

Fable is available to subscribers for now. But its upcoming shift to API-only access shows how quickly frontier AI is moving from ‘all you can...

11.06.2026 10

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The AI bill is coming due. Businesses are learning tokens aren’t free

Companies rushed to put AI tools in employees’ hands. Now surprise usage costs are forcing them to ask what all those prompts are actually worth.

10.06.2026 10

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Synthetic data is everywhere, but is it any good?

Pollsters and market researchers are using synthetic respondents to fill in for real people. Critics worry the practice could turn machine-made...

05.06.2026 10

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The era of ‘good enough’ AI has arrived

As frontier AI models get pricier, cheaper and locally hosted alternatives are becoming powerful enough for most users.

21.05.2026 10

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YouTube may be building different political realities for men and women

A new study found the platform’s recommendation algorithm steers users toward sharply different political content based on inferred gender.

20.05.2026 10

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The OpenAI lawsuit became a master class in what not to put in writing

As private messages from Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, and other tech leaders spilled into public view, the trial underscored a growing reality of...

19.05.2026 10

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How the Spotify mafia took over Sweden’s tech scene

Former Spotify employees now run some of Sweden’s most ambitious startups and venture firms, turning the music-streaming giant into the country’s...

18.05.2026 10

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Why Jensen Huang joined Trump’s high-stakes China summit at the last minute

The Nvidia CEO’s late addition to Trump’s Beijing delegation underscores how central compute power has become to the two countries’ AI rivalry.

13.05.2026 10

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AI is flooding the courts with more cases, more filings, and more fake citations

Researchers say generative AI is making it dramatically easier for people to file lawsuits, even as legal professionals are getting caught submitting...

11.05.2026 20

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Your AI Is Getting Dumber—and More Expensive. Here’s Why

Your AI Is Getting Dumber—and More Expensive. Here’s Why Why your AI subscriptions are getting more expensive and less useful—and how experts...

11.05.2026 40

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Google used to be a search engine. Now it wants to be everything

The tech giant still dominates online advertising, but its aggressive AI push has transformed Google into a sprawling company with competing...

08.05.2026 20

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How Europe is building its own DARPA to counter the drone threat

Germany and Sweden are teaming up to fast-track anti-drone technology, creating a new model for European defense innovation.

04.05.2026 10

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Are we losing our minds to AI?

Two of the world’s most powerful men had to be chided by a judge to be more civil to one another, while violence and brickbats erupt online and...

01.05.2026 10

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AI traders are already testing prediction markets—and losing money

A new study of frontier models on Kalshi and Polymarket finds consistent losses, even as early signs suggest more autonomous systems could eventually...

24.04.2026 10

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AI isn’t built for all languages and cultures. There’s a push to fix that

From Egypt to Indonesia, developers are building their own models to better reflect local languages and cultures.

16.04.2026 9

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AI companies are tightening token limits. The last one to blink may win

OpenAI and Anthropic are reining in high-volume usage as developers and businesses strain limited compute capacity.

09.04.2026 20

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Lawmakers want to restrict 3D printing to stop ghost guns. Critics say it won’t work

New ‘print blocker’ proposals would force printers to scan and reject files, a move opponents say risks privacy and targets the wrong problem.

07.04.2026 10

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Forget the Moon: The Next Billion-Dollar Exit Is Hiding in Earth’s Orbit

04.04.2026 20

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China is moving faster on next-gen tech. The U.S. is trying to keep up

As breakthroughs in AI, brain-computer interfaces, and aviation accelerate, the real competition is over how much risk each country is willing to...

01.04.2026 10

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The Navy’s AI bet to fix its submarine bottleneck

A $2.4 billion automated factory aims to speed production. The harder question is whether the U.S. can still fix what it builds.

27.03.2026 20

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The L.A. verdict could haunt social media platforms

A California court’s ruling on social media addiction could trigger more lawsuits and reshape how we treat platforms.

25.03.2026 20

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What happens when an AI agent decides to email you

A Stanford-built system with memory and web access reached out to researchers on its own, offering a glimpse of a more proactive kind of AI.

25.03.2026 10

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This artist’s work has been shown at MoMA. Now it’s training AI

Michael Hafftka has uploaded thousands of his paintings to Hugging Face, arguing that if AI models are going to learn from artists, they should learn...

25.03.2026 10

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