Articles by River — Tech Culture

AI regulationAI Self-Regulation: Are Anthropic, OpenAI and Dario Amodei Writing Safety Rules or Market Rules?The same coordination that can make frontier AI safer can also decide who gets to compete.

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EtsyAI-generated goods are making Etsy rethink trust, seller identity, and moderation

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Future of workAI Career Anxiety Is Asking Whether Engineers and PMs Still Have a Place

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SmartglassesMeta’s camera-free smart glasses make a case for product subtraction

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Artificial intelligenceCNBC’s Model Fatigue Week: GPT-6 Astra, Fable, Mythos, Meta and Google Make AI Adoption a Change Management Problem

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Apple Inc.Apple’s John Ternus Era Begins With iPhone 18 Pro, First Foldable, and a Platform Reset

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Digital TransformationDigital Transformation in Higher Education Is an Implementation Design Problem

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Digital humanitiesUCLA’s First U.S. Digital Humanities Department Is Rebundling AI Education

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ExpertiseAI Matthew Effect: Why Recognized Experts Gain Value

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Artificial intelligenceAI Backlash Is Now a Social License Problem, Not a Compute Supply Problem

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Artificial intelligenceAI Makes Knowledge Work Faster. The Bill Comes Due in Judgment

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Amazon Prime AirAmazon Says Prime Air Will Scale Sixfold Toward Nearly 500 Cities by Year End

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AI assisted mathematicsThe Conversation’s Astra Story Tests AI Math Credit and Proof

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AI-generated contentWIRED’s AI Slop Backlash Shows Platforms Learning to Label the Feed

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Robot Vacuum CleanerMashable’s Shark, iRobot, and Eufy Roundup Turns the FCC Ban Into a Trust Test

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CuneiformAI Translating 5,000 Year Old Cuneiform Shows How Scarce Expertise Scales

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PublishingAI Is Lowering Publishing Friction, Not Solving Publishing

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Artificial intelligenceBig Tech AI Spending Moves From Vision To Proof Of Return

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CybersecurityAutonomous AI Is the Cybersecurity Battleground, Treat It as Architecture

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Digital rights managementXbox's Unacceptable Outage Shows Licensing Must Not Block Disc Games

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Generative artificial intelligenceAd Age’s AI Token Cost Story Is Really About Agency Pricing Design

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Artificial intelligenceBruce Schneier’s AI decision framework asks what skill you are training

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Facebook MarketplaceMeta Seller App Shows Facebook Innovating by Unbundling Marketplace

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Android XRSamsung and Google Bet Android XR Can Escape Meta’s Smart Glasses Stigma Through Trust

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Generative artificial intelligenceCould AI squeeze out the weird ideas that change the world?

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HyperTextingHyperTexting tests a social feed with no ads, algorithms, or AI slop

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Artificial IntelligenceThe US China AI Arms Race Is Moving From Model Shock to Strategic Indifference

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Smart lockAliro gives CSA, Apple Home Key, Android wallets and Nuki a common smart lock story

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Agentic artificial intelligenceWhat LSE and Into-it's Fully Autonomous AI Marketing Test Really Changes

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AI literacyISTELive 26 Reframes AI Literacy Around Verification, Not Tool Use

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