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The Big Read

Ohanian in Paradise: Still Nursing Old Wounds From Reddit, the Former Founder Chases a New Legacy

The Seven Seven Six founder talks about his fiery exit from the company he co-founded, and his search for new sources of redemption.

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Screentime

Screentime: The Millennial Tech Founder Who Wonders If She’s Too Old for TikTok

Kathryn Minshew, founder of online jobs marketplace The Muse, has basically been on a nationwide tour for the past month. Traveling from her home in New York’s East Village, she’s turned up in...

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Annie Goldsmith
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Art by Mike Sullivan.
Department of Musk Studies

Elon Musk’s Meme-Spreading, Critic-Blocking, Ego-Inflating Twitter Feed by the Numbers

On October 27, new Twitter owner Elon Musk posted his third-most-liked tweet ever: “The bird is freed.” (No. 1 was his infamous putting-cocaine-back-into-Coke joke. No. 2 was his free-speech bear...

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Annie Goldsmith
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Margaux MacColl
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Arielle Pardes
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Art by Clark Miller
High Rolling

Could Gambling on Elections Be ‘Bigger Than Sports Betting’? A Trading Startup Shoots Its Shot

Running his fingers through his halo of dark hair while bouncing like a kid with the right answer, Tarek Mansour explained the derivation of his company’s name. “Kel shi” is Lebanese Arabic for...

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Art by Clark Miller
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AI art generated by Clark Miller
The Big Read

‘This Time Is Really, Really Different’: The Early Adopter’s Guide to the Ingenious, Uncanny, Slightly Scary World of Generative AI

The current thing in tech no longer involves crypto. Suddenly it is generative AI's moment. We assess the emerging leaders of the text-to-everything pack.

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Margaux MacColl
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Generating Clout

Meet the AInfluencers: 14 Creators Using Generative AI to Gain Big Followings

We’re living through the palace revolution of artificial intelligence. Creatives, once thought immune to the looming threat of AI, are suddenly competing with software like Open AI's Dall-E and...

By
Arielle Pardes
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and
Annie Goldsmith
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Art by Mike Sullivan.
AI vs. IRL

War of the Art Worlds: Generative AI Sparks a New Culture Clash Among Creatives

“When I was a small kid,” said Curio, a nonbinary artist and web developer from Pennsylvania, “I literally had the most expansive, vivid daydreams of a device that I could put on my head, and it...

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Jessica Lucas
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Mixed AI art by Clark Miller
Social Studies

Students Are Using AI Text Generators to Write Papers—Are They Cheating?

When West—not his real name—enrolled in college last year at the University of Rhode Island, he quickly realized that his professors expected a lot out of him. He had scheduled teaching, he had...

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Chris Stokel-Walker
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Art by Clark Miller
Art by Clark Miller
Art by Clark Miller
The Big Read

Jeff Lawson’s Great Leap: Can the Twilio CEO Fix His Company and His Country at the Same Time?

Swamped by a falling stock price and laying off employees, the once-anonymous founder is now stepping out as a big-time Democratic fundraiser.

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Abram Brown
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Screentime

Screentime: Investor Katie Stanton Is Working Through Her 2,000 Unread Emails

Katie Stanton is in high demand. The Moxxie Ventures founder and general partner has 2,007 unread emails and 530 unread texts on her phone. She’s “always” running down her battery and her voicemail...

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Annie Goldsmith
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Art by Mike Sullivan.
Hocus Oculus

The Top 20 Tech-Themed Halloween Costumes of 2022

Witches and werewolves: tired. Scary-mucci and Semafor: wired. It’s the spooky season, and here at The Information, we are pumpkin spice–pilled. This year’s Halloweenfestivities may be somewhat...

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The Information Staff
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Art by Clark Miller and Mike Sullivan.
Follow the Money

Big Tech Moves (Slightly) to the Right: Employee Contributions Show Silicon Valley’s Growing Embrace of Conservatives

It’s not just Elon Musk who is tacking to the right. Employees of four big tech companies are directing a greater share of their midterm political contributions to conservative candidates than in...

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Arielle Pardes
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Shane Burke
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Art by Clark Miller
Art by Clark Miller
Art by Clark Miller
The Big Read

‘You’re Not in Control of Your Thoughts’: Social Media Companies Know When Users Are Manic or Bipolar. So Why Don’t They Help Them?

A popular influencer’s manic episode prompts more questions about social media’s impact on mental health.

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Margaux MacColl
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Social Studies

‘Sometimes You’ve Got to Fight Fire With Fire’: A Vigilante Coder Goes to War Against Misinformation

For the people closest to Christopher Bouzy, like his wife Jennifer, the battles he wages against trolls online can be both captivating and devastating to watch. “It’s fun when he mops the floor...

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Jessica Lucas
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Art by Clark Miller
Unsolicited Advice

If Sheryl Sandberg Had a War Room…

Last week, just days after stepping down as chief operating officer of Meta Platforms, Sheryl Sandberg donated $3 million to the American Civil Liberties Union “to protect reproductive health care...

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Annie Goldsmith
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Art by Clark Miller.
Market Research

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All-nighters were once a badge of honor among the tech elite. Now there’s nothing more embarrassing than a sleepless CEO. “It’s almost like there was this overnight shift in the tech scene,” said...

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Arielle Pardes
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Art by Clark Miller
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