Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images After buying Twitter, Elon Musk rebuilt it to his own specifications and preferences. This resulted in an environment we may gently call friendlier…
Read more X Really Is Pulling Users to the RightPhoto-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Meta’s hard and early pivot into artificial intelligence hasn’t exactly gone as planned, with tens of billions of investment dollars sunk into middling…
Read more Big AI Isn’t Waiting for the BacklashPhoto-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Around Election Day, 2024, the price of bitcoin started a long, steep climb. Already priced near its all-time high, and driven in part…
Read more It’s the First Real Crypto CrashPhoto: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images On Wednesday evening, Nvidia, the chip firm at the center of the world, reported its quarterly earnings. It was by any measure a…
Read more Inside the AI BubblePhoto-Illustration: Intelligencer; Graphic: MAX/Apple The early rise of the internet is usually told as an extension of globalization. New networking technology made instantaneous communication possible, complementing and accelerating…
Read more The Global Internet Is Coming ApartPhoto-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Amazon What kind of company is Amazon? It’s a question with a lot of reasonable answers: It’s a peerless e-commerce giant; it’s a massive shipping…
Read more Why Is Amazon Watching Us?Over at the official blog of the Wikipedia community, Marshall Miller untangled a recent mystery. “Around May 2025, we began observing unusually high amounts of apparently human traffic,”…
Read more Wikipedia Is Getting Pretty Worried About AIPhoto-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Glance One of the main promises of online advertising is targeting. Tracking browsing habits helped early digital advertisers slice up audiences and sell them to…
Read more Get Ready to See Yourself in AdsPhoto-Illustration: Intelligencer OpenAI’s Sora, the TikTok-like video generator app, was an instant hit, shooting to the top of the download charts and hitting a million installs within a…
Read more Users Have One Big Problem with SoraPhoto: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Nvidia has only attained household-name status recently, but it’s the opposite of an overnight success. For decades, the company was mostly known for…
Read more Sam Altman Is Trying to Manifest a New NvidiaPhoto-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Sora Last week, Meta’s newly appointed chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, who co-founded the AI data-collection and annotation firm Scale.ai, announced Vibes, “a new feed…
Read more Sora and the Sloppy Future of AIPhoto-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images In the AI world, everyone always seems to be going for broke. It’s AGI or bust — or as the gloomier title of…
Read more AI’s Go-for-Broke Regulation StrategyThis week, Sam Altman announced his “favorite feature of ChatGPT so far.” It’s called Pulse, and according Altman, it “works for you overnight” by “thinking about your interests,…
Read more Sam Altman’s Plan to Turn ChatGPT Into a FeedPhoto-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical…
Read more The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an EndPhoto-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: WildChat/The Allen Institute for AI A recent research paper sounded an alarm for AI developers: Training data is drying up. Concerns about theft, copyright, and…
Read more ChatGPT Users Want Help With Homework. They’re Also Very Horny.
