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Guerrilla outdoor campaign decrying ‘GROK CHILD PORN’ appears around the city

The mysterious marketing push comes amid public uproar and international investigations into sex abuse material generated by Elon Musk’s chatbot

February 24, 2026

Who (allegedly) runs tech?

Two magazines investigate. Plus, the people want a ‘Silicon Valley’ reboot

February 23, 2026

How the uncanny valley could kill the Valley

Porn performer Siri Dahl and others have started sounding the alarm about AI's impacts on privacy, free speech, and legal sex work

February 23, 2026

Who goes AI?

An interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game from the 1940s is updated for our age

February 20, 2026

San Francisco Standard is going ‘AI-native’

A $150,000 grant from the Lenfest Institute is fueling a new app and more

February 19, 2026

The high-fantasy cult of Anthropic

Plus, its fight with the Pentagon, OpenAI and Meta race to deploy AI agents to the masses, and tasteless AI people argue about taste

February 17, 2026

The New Liberals just want to enjoy their Tax Havens

At The Irish Bank, policy wonks debate the Billionaire’s March and Georgist land taxes

February 13, 2026

Marc Benioff makes ‘cruel’ ICE jokes at Salesforce event

The Salesforce CEO joked about ICE agents being at a company gathering in Las Vegas

February 10, 2026

Slopper Bowl LX

AI’s dark aura was all over the Big Game. Viewers were not fans

February 9, 2026

Substack reports mass data leak: ‘This sucks. I’m sorry’

The popular newsletter platform was breached in October 2025

February 4, 2026