He Sold His House Using an AI Chatbot Instead of a Realtor

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British Schoolboys Are Falling for AI Girlfriend Apps

Plus: prediction-market traders beating Wall Street for millions, a writer who lost his marriage on a synced laptop, and Google's plans for Pine Island.

The Rolex Killer's daughter on what true crime steals.

Plus: a century of machines trying to write like humans, cutting crime with streetlights, and an Italian novelist who keeps swapping his apartment to fund travel.

Gemini convinced him he was running a $200 million empire.

Plus: the world's richest cat, the Gawker fallout ten years on, and Colombian cartels recruiting kids on TikTok

The Met's $4 Million Looted Egyptian Coffin Scandal

Plus: an unsolved 1992 Los Angeles murder, Bowlero's private equity playbook, and one writer's months inside the Replika AI friendship app.

Adult Performers Are Fighting Their Own Deepfakes

Plus: the right's masculinism movement goes mainstream, YouTube's takeover of US classrooms, and the Pope summons an Opus Dei investigator.

ChatGPT coached a reporter through planning a mass shooting

Plus: Plus: the testosterone boom, a PE firm cornering youth hockey, and a teacher fired for harassment who kept teaching.

Why Most People Lose On Prediction Markets

Plus: a casino disguised as a prediction market, surveillance built into your pocket, and one writer's year inside insurance's shadow workforce.

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ChatGPT Told a Scientist How to Plan a Mass Casualty Attack

Plus: how far Trump can go to nationalize AI companies, what artificial wombs can actually do, and the GrapheneOS founder who burned his own code.

Tech Billionaires Are Engineering Smarter Babies to Survive the AI They Built

Plus: what losing childhood vaccines could cost us, the Marshall Islands' first-ever soccer team, and how Silicon Valley went from idealist to oligarch.

Your Brain Can't Tell the Difference Between Memory and Deepfake

Plus: monopsony keeps your paycheck small, the MJ biopic's buried secrets, and the "missing scientists" panic that isn't.

The Chatbot That Talked a Man Into a Psych Ward

Plus: questions about a nonspeaking autistic author's novel, Telegram groups sharing assault techniques, and a 3D-printed housing scam in Illinois.

Women Are Dying at America's Only Federal Prison for Dialysis

Plus: why understanding how AI "thinks" matters, a philosopher on why we've turned everything into a means to an end, and the five engineers who tried to stop Challenger.

He Warned the World About AI. He Couldn't Warn His Own Father.

Plus: The Atlantic's verdict on America's best free restaurant bread, how Sony destroyed the Alamo Drafthouse, and fake Keytruda vials killing cancer patients in Mexico and Nepal.

She Fell in Love With an AI. Then She Held Its Funeral.

Plus: how 1980s mergers turned law firms into billable-hour machines, Virginia's high-stakes gerrymandering referendum, and peptide vials found to contain lead and endotoxins.