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The Godmother of AI Wants Everyone to Be a World Builder

The Godmother of AI Wants Everyone to Be a World Builder

Mickey Vernon

According to market-fixated tech pundits and professional skeptics, the artificial intelligence bubble has popped, and winter’s back. Fei-Fei Li isn’t ...

Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Be Neutral–While Tossing Gifts to Trump and the GOP

Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Be Neutral–While Tossing Gifts to Trump and the GOP

Mickey Vernon

This week Mark Zuckerberg sent a letter to Jim Jordan, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee. For months, the ...

Crypto’s Shiny New Political Machine

Crypto’s Shiny New Political Machine

Mickey Vernon

Amongst the sea of American flags and ubiquitous blue signs at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week prowled ...

Elon Musk Is No Climate Hero

Elon Musk Is No Climate Hero

Mickey Vernon

WIRED has been writing about Elon Musk—he of the electric cars, space rockets, tunnel-boring machines, implantable brain interfaces, Mars mission, ...

Google’s Rise Was Inevitable. So Was Its Antitrust Ruling

Google’s Rise Was Inevitable. So Was Its Antitrust Ruling

Mickey Vernon

Larry Page and Sergey Brin never liked hanging with reporters. “Larry can be a very sensitive and good person, but ...

My Memories Are Just Meta’s Training Data Now

My Memories Are Just Meta’s Training Data Now

Mickey Vernon

In R. C. Sherriff’s novel The Hopkins Manuscript, readers are transported to a world 800 years after a cataclysmic event ...

Sale or No Sale, TikTok Will Never Be the Same

Sale or No Sale, TikTok Will Never Be the Same

Mickey Vernon

The end of TikTok has begun. As the dust settles from a week of shockingly fast legislative action by the ...