My letter this week is about kids, social media and Jonathan Haidt's book. But I also address the controversy about that iPad add, and give a possible explanation of how that happened. wired.com/story/plaintex…

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt warns that social media harms children but definitive evidence is hard to find. Whatever your views on kids and technology, digital connectivity is now part of childhood. wired.trib.al/6Sa1FqN

There's No Undoing Tech's Great Rewiring of Childhood trib.al/37c6ZNz

“One thing, however, looms over the revivification of The Onion. In its earlier days, its satire hit our funny bones by exaggerating the absurdities of our existences… How can satire thrive when actual reality is crazier?” - ⁦Steven Levy⁩ 📈🧅🗞️ wired.com/story/plaintex…

Read Steven Levy’s full interview with Arati Prabhakar where they discuss the status of the unfilled role of chief technology officer for the nation, all the way to how Bruce Springsteen figured into Biden’s first ChatGPT demo. wired.com/story/arati-pr…

Today the FTC banned most noncompete clauses for workers, a process set in motion by Lina Khan over a year ago. I talked to her then about her reasons for the action. wired.com/story/plaintex…

It starts with transcription and summaries, but may lead to avatars standing in for us. And that may lead to the Meeting Singularity, when AI itself does everything we now do when we sit in a room or Zoom together. wired.com/story/taking-b…

A year ago, the tech industry presented itself as begging for AI regulation. This year the prospect of a big AI bill is as likely as Google rehiring the 8 authors of the Transformer paper. wired.com/story/tech-ai-…

90 percent eclipse isn’t like 90 percent of a piece of pizza. It’s still sunny in NYC.

Incredible to reflect on my journey - from practicing English back in the USSR with a bootlegged copy of 'Hackers' by Steven Levy to now seeing him pen a story about our very own Archetype AI (@PhysicalAI) launch. Thanks for capturing it all, Steven... 'til next time!…

My story on Archetype AI, which has built an AI foundation model that's more of a large BEHAVIOR model than an LLM. It uses sensor data to let customers talk with buildings, factories and the human body. The idea is 'ChatGPT but for physical reality. wired.com/story/plaintex…

There's been signs of an AI pushback of late, claiming LLMs are overhyped. But a Pew study shows that in the workplace in particular, the uptake on using ChatGPT is rising fast. Here's why that matters. wired.com/story/plaintex…

Thanks to you Illia—the first of the 8 “Attention” authors I interviewed, almost a year ago!

This conversation got weirder than I expected. But fun!

The story of transformers. I talked to all eight of the authors of 'Attention Is All You Need' the paper that revolutionized AI. wired.com/story/eight-go…

Interview with CEO of Groq about its AI chips that enable chatbots to answer queries instantly, sending a cease and desist to X.ai over the Groq trademark, more (@stevenlevy / Wired)

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Chatbots powered by the Groq Inc chipset are so fast it's like the answers already existed and are just lit up. Huge bursts in speed in a product are transformative. Is Groq for real? wired.com/story/plaintex…

This should be fun! If you're in Brooklyn tonight, or dream of being in Brooklyn tonight, come by!