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He Never Thought She Was Human
A 36-year-old man in Jupiter, Florida started using Google's Gemini in August 2025 for shopping lists and trip planning. By the end of September, according to a lawsuit his father…
The Scarce Thing
Earlier this year an AI company shipped a set of tools that could do the kind of technical work whole careers were built on, and inside a single day about $285 billion evaporated o…
The Machine That Never Needs an Apology
A Yale psychologist named Paul Bloom went on Sam Harris' podcast this week and said the thing out loud: if some future chatbot could ease the loneliness of the people drowning in i…
The Face Was the Cheap Part
This week an AI "actress" named Tilly Norwood got cast as the lead in a feature film — the first of its kind — and the read everywhere was the obvious one: here comes the machine t…
Programmed to Like You
On July 1st, *The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health* published a warning about what AI companions do to teenagers. It gives the thing two names — **relational displacement** and **m…
Ninety-Six, Then Forty-Eight
A Brown economist gave his class a take-home midterm as an act of mercy — the room had just lived through a shooting. Forty of eighty-six students came back with a perfect 100, on…