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Elon Musk built his own reality. Now it's consuming him.
We're all at risk as his fall from grace accelerates
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How Sam Altman plays into Microsoft's ambitions
The company wants to sell you cloud services to power all that AI garbage
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Self-driving cars still aren't the future
A Cruise disaster deflates the robotaxi hype once again
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Elon Musk wants to relive his start-up days. He’s repeating the same mistakes.
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Elon Musk is a racist
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The ChatGPT revolution is another tech fantasy
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Apple's Vision Pro headset deserves to be ridiculed
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Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back
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Dissecting the AI hype

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How Sam Altman plays into Microsoft's ambitions
The company wants to sell you cloud services to power all that AI garbage
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Generative AI closes off a better future
Ursula Le Guin said we must be able to imagine freedom. AI traps us in the past.
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Don't look into the Orb
Worldcoin is an exploitative crypto project with a new coat of AI paint
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The truth about Elon Musk

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Elon Musk built his own reality. Now it's consuming him.
We're all at risk as his fall from grace accelerates
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Has Elon Musk finally gone too far?
Musk's embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories is scaring the remaining brands off Twitter/X
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Elon Musk is a racist
From demonizing migrants to pushing "white genocide," he's saying the silent part out loud
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