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Misleading TikTok Shop ads turned The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies into a bestseller

The obscure, inaccurate book’s popularity on the TikTok Shop resulted in a spike in sales on Amazon.

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AI: How employers use automation to make our jobs worse

Is a new age of digital offshoring coming?

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How AI tells Israel who to bomb

AI is supposed to help militaries make precise strikes. Is that the case in Gaza?

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Phones and mental health: What if an app can tell you if you’re depressed?

Emerging apps like MoodCapture use AI to guess when you’ll be sad. Can they also help you feel better?

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The information problems around the Andrew Huberman podcast

The Huberman Lab has credentials and millions of fans, but it sometimes oversteps medical fact.

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Fighting AI deepfake abuse of teens

How do you stop deepfake nudes?

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Everything’s a cult now

Derek Thompson on what the end of monoculture could mean for American democracy.

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Imagining an internet without TikTok after Biden signs potential ban

The potential TikTok ban is law. What happens now?

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From DoorDash to UberEats, why is food delivery so expensive?

As delivery discourse rages, don’t forget the middlemen: apps like UberEats, DoorDash, and Grubhub.

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What artificial intelligence is, and how it’s changing our world

Understand how generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E, are already shaping everything — from text and image generation to how we live and work.