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John Herrman

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    Amazon Just Built a Temu Clone. Why Isn’t It More Fun?The Everything Store has finally opened its portal to China, with mixed results.
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    Why the Government’s Google Breakup Plan Is Such a Big DealCleaving off Chrome could reset the web as we know it.
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    Big Tech’s Loyalty EraTech leaders are bracing for, and warming to, their industry’s Trumpian, loyalty-based future.
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    Why Reddit Is Blowing UpThe social media site is making money and growing fast. It can thank new search traffic.
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    Polymarket Loves Trump. But Is It Just About the Vibes?Users on prediction markets are piling money into bets on Trump. They also can’t stop arguing with one another.
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    Get Ready for a Lot More Bots on Social MediaWhy Meta is filling our feeds with bots.
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    Hurricane Milton Shows How Elon Musk’s X Is Now Useless in a CrisisLive events and news belong to the streamers now.
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    The Return of the TV ChannelDisney+ and Peacock are the latest streamers to bring back good old-fashioned TV channels.
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    Is That AI? Or Does It Just Suck?AI is now associated with things that are a little bit unbelievable, a little bit generic, or just sort of off.
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    Taylor Swift and the Power of the AI BacklashAI is already changing the world — by making people worried and annoyed about AI.
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    The Search Engine Wars Are Back OnGoogle is turning into ChatGPT, and ChatGPT is turning into Google.
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    ChatGPT Users Want Help With Homework. They’re Also Very Horny.A new window into what real people are asking the popular AI chatbot.
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    The American Right Is Terminally OnlineDonald Trump and Elon Musk have joined forces. Or are they stuck together?
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    The Future Will Be BriefWhat happens when AI summarizes everything we do and say?
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    Why Silicon Valley Elites Are Turning MAGAJ.D. Vance’s nomination is, among other things, an invitation from the GOP to America’s tech overlords.
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    Meta’s AI Needs to Speak With YouThe company is putting chatbots everywhere so you don’t go anywhere.
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    X’s New Video Strategy Is a Pivot to NowhereThe social-media platform is going video-first by posting every other platform’s videos last.
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    TikTok Seems Pretty Worried About Getting BannedTikTok’s prompt asking users to lobby Congress on its behalf kind of broke TikTok — and Congress.
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    Can Reddit Survive Its IPO?The company wants to sell shares to users and user data to Google. Redditors might have other ideas.
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    AI Companies Are Getting the Culture War They DeserveGoogle’s new image generator is yet another half-baked AI tool that is practically designed to provoke controversy.
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    Walmart Is Getting Tired of Just Being a StoreAmerica’s biggest retailer wants to buy America’s biggest TV-maker, but not for the reasons you’d think.
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    Big Tech Still Has a Big Addiction to ChinaAmerica’s tech giants have made a show of distancing themselves from China, but in many ways their dependence on it has actually grown.
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    What Do AI Companies Want With the Media?The big deal OpenAI just inked with Axel Springer offers a glimpse of how AI and the media might eventually intersect.
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    What the Hell Is Elon Musk Doing at X? 5 Theories of the CaseNot only are things not going according to plan — it can seem as though there was never much of a plan at all.
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    What If Amazon Delivered Everything You Order From Anywhere?The company’s massive logistics operation may soon allow it to remake yet another sector of the economy however it wants.
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    How Meta Is Monetizing the Decline of FacebookHave you heard about WhatsApp’s aggressive new ad strategy?
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    What Happens When Ads Generate Themselves?AI is great at creating uncanny-valley product photos. Its utility for consumers is less clear.
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    Spotify Is Eating the Entire Music BusinessAs indie music platforms like Bandcamp deteriorate, artists must cater to a single, powerful streaming platform.
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    Is X (Formerly Twitter) Worth $1?Elon Musk has a big new idea to make all active users pay a small fee.
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    Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads Is an Early Success — Thanks to Elon MuskA hundred million users later, Meta’s timing with its Twitter knockoff looks both savvy and lucky.
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    Apple Keeps Trying to Fix Its UsersThe company’s guilty conscience is making it nudgy.
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