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Trump Says AI Companies Will Police Themselves Under “Morally Binding” Agreement
Comparing Notes: Meta Trial Verdict w/ Jacob Ward
The Terrifying Things Claude Can Do
“They Are At The Whim of The President”
“We Were Gonna Win.” So Why Did the States Settle with Meta? I Asked Colorado’s Attorney General.
"Maybe He'll Listen to the CEOs Who Are About to Get This in the Throat"
Inside the Meta Settlement: $16.7 Billion, No Fault, and a Clause That Saves Meta $5 Billion.
Meta Trial Day 2: If Zuckerberg Wanted it Done, It Would Be Done
The Meta Trial: How Zuck Will Fight Back
The Meta Trial: The States Say “We Have the Evidence”
Inside Meta's Biggest Case Yet
Zuckerberg's Biggest Trial Yet
Why AI Must Confess Now
Here Come AI Romance Scams
"You Did It Before You Considered Whether You Should"
Let Us Make A.I. Nudes If We Want, Say Elon Musk's xAI Lawyers
Here's Where Prediction Markets Go Wrong
Revisiting "The Loop"
The Fight to Protect You Against AI (with Rep Sara Jacobs)
The Lightphone Takes Your Choices Away...to Give You More Freedom (with Joe Hollier)
Comparing Notes with Jacob Ward
The Pope Slams Silicon Valley
Musk Lost in Court. But Who Won, Exactly?
The CEOs Who Flew to China and Got Nothing
Sam Altman Under Oath
Sam Altman's Own Hero Calls Him a Liar. Now He Faces a Jury.
Jake on CNN: The White House Reverses Course on A.I. Regulation
Musk vs Altman: What I've Seen So Far
Juicy A.I. Billionaire Drama Exposed
Nine People in Oakland Hold More Power Over A.I. Than Congress
Why U.S. Spies Are Using Banned A.I.
Why Tim Cook's Apple Era Is Over — And What Comes Next
Why Are Social Media's Effects So Hard to Study? Because Only the Companies Can Truly Do It.
How America Built an AI Kill Chain (with Katrina Manson)
Mythos Latest: The AI That Escaped Its Own Cage
An A.I. Doomsday Machine...and the Private Club That Has It
From Popular Science to Substack: Baratunde & Jacob Ward Compare Notes
Tech Companies Already Know When You've Had Enough
Everything I Said on Six TV Networks Yesterday
The Verdict That Could End Social Media as We Know It (with Nita Farahany)
The Era of Unaccountable Design Is Over
🚨 BREAKING: Meta just lost.
Is America Ready for "Behavioral Harm"?
The AI Industry Got What It Wanted Today...Again
Hollywood Is Pulling Up the Drawbridge
The Poison Is Back.
DHS Has a Surveillance Shopping List. You're On It.
Did Meta Connect Children to Predators? (with A.G. Raúl Torrez)
The Attack on Those Who Say No to Tech
A Silicon Valley Congressman Faces the Shifting Sands of AI
Gaza was the Beta Test. Iran is the Product Launch.
I Went on CNN Tonight to Talk About the Anthropic Ban
What Anthropic Doesn't Want the Pentagon to Have
State of the Union: Tech Anxiety Edition
Jake on CNN: The Pentagon Just Told the World's Most Cautious AI Company to Stop Being Cautious
Anthropic's CEO Built an AI With Ethics. The Pentagon Just Told Him to Drop Them.
Big Tech Accountability is Having a Big February
Moral Panic or Public Health Crisis? A Real Debate About Kids and Screens
Zuckerberg Was Served at the Courthouse Door. Here's What That Means.
Zuckerberg Under Oath (and What I Couldn't Say on TV)
The Social Media Addiction Trial Explained
Social Media's Big Tobacco Moment
Why ICE Agents Wear Masks: Inside the Billion-Dollar Surveillance System Targeting Us All
AI Is Getting People Fired — Even Though It’s Not Ready
Big Tech Knew It Was Harming Kids — Newly Unsealed Documents Prove It
We're a Match Flare in an Infinite Darkness — And We're Wasting It Fighting Each Other
Wells Fargo Is Firing Thousands of Workers Because of AI — And Bank Tellers Are Unionizing for the First Time Ever
Davos Is Just a High School Reunion — And AI Companies are the Cool Kids
Robots Are Coming for Factory Jobs — and No One Voted on It
Humans are Tribal and Judgy, and AI is Exploiting It (with Yarrow Dunham)
Every Oil Empire Thinks This Time Will Be Different.
Why So Many People Hate AI — and Why 2026 Is the Breaking Point
Did Weed Just Escape the Culture War?
AI Has Us Lying to One Another (and It's Changing How We Think)
AI Data Centers Are Draining Our Resources — and Making Strange Political Allies
Jake on PBS: Is This the End of A.I. Laws?
AI Isn’t Just a Money Risk Anymore — It’s Bigger than That
Trump's Executive Order Gives the AI Industry What It Wants.
AI Is Even More Biased Than We Are: Mahzarin Banaji on the Disturbing Truth Behind LLMs
Australia Just Rebooted Childhood — And the World Is Watching
AI is Creating a ‘Hive Mind' — Scientists Just Proved It
Jake on CBS News: OpenAI's Fight to "Make It Irresistible"
OpenAI Declares "Code Red" — And Takes Aim at Your Brain
Big Tech Got Its Government Back
AI Distortion Is Here — And It’s Already Warping Us All
Insurers Are Backing Away From A.I.—and That Should Scare You More Than Any Sci-Fi Predictions
The Executive Order That Would End AI Regulation in America
When AI Stops Being About Jobs — and Starts Being About Us
The Great AI Overbuild: From Tulsa’s Empty Highways to Britain’s Railway Mania to Data Centers in Space
Mapping the AI Power Shift: Buffett’s Big Bet, Thiel’s Exit, Meta’s Language Play, and a Drunk Robot in Moscow
Is America Ready to Fight Big Tech? (with Sacha Haworth)
Can Journalism Survive? (With UC Berkeley Journalism Dean Michael Bolden)
BONUS EPISODE: Urgent Futures Podcast
AI Addiction is Coming (with Zachary Gidwitz)
Brazil is an Alternate Universe (with Cristina Tardaguila)
Is AI Pessimism Feeding the Powerful? (with Rumman Chowdhury)
Bonus Episode: Jake on Andrew Keen's Podcast
Can AI Be Ethical? (with Olivia Gambelin)
The War Over TikTok (with Emily Baker-White)
What is AI Psychosis? (with Morten Rand-Hendricksen)