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A tech and online culture publication by Taylor Lorenz, featuring original reporting on how the internet is reshaping politics, business, media, and culture.
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The Brutal Truth Behind The AI Bubble w/ Garrison Lovely (opens the original)
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For this months Power User bonus episode, Journalist Garrison Lovely, author of the new book Obsolete: The AI Industry’s Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us, (out this week!!) joins me to break down the case for and against the AI bubble.We dig into the staggering amount of money flowing into artificial intelligence, Nvidia’s central role in the AI economy, OpenAI and Anthropic’s business models, the economics of running large language models, massive data center spending, Chinese open-weight mod
The Disturbing Cult Taking Over Silicon Valley (opens the original)
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Every year, hundreds of technologists, rationalists, AI researchers, startup founders and prediction market obsessives gather in Berkeley for an event called Manifest. Officially, it’s a conference about prediction markets. But the ideas circulating there offer a fascinating peek into a much bigger worldview that is becoming increasingly influential across Silicon Valley and the AI industry.In this episode of Power User, freelance journalist Alex Bronzini-Vender joins me to explain what he saw i
The Dark Money Behind AI Doomer Panic (opens the original)
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Why does everyone suddenly think AI could kill humanity? In this week’s episode of Power User, I’m joined by Washington Post tech journalist Natasha Tiku to discuss the now extremely viral claim that AI has a 10% chance of causing human extinction. Researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI continue to push this idea, and we uncover how the insular, billionaire-funded Effective Altruism (EA) movement transformed sci-fi doomsday theories into mainstream media panic and undemocratic policy proposals.We b
Did 700 AI bots actually form a civilization? (opens the original)
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Vibe Coders Now Have Their Own Language (opens the original)
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