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The future of local TV news has taken a Trumpian turn

The schemes and shenanigans behind the Nexstar-Tegna deal.

Tina Nguyen
Peloton, stay in your lane

Multiple CEOs have insisted it’s not ‘just a fitness tech company,’ but maybe it should be.

Victoria Song
The AI code wars are heating up

OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are eating the software world alive.

David Pierce
Why your Whoop might tell you to up your testosterone

Whoop and Oura are health tech trendsetters. But hurtling toward innovation can have some unintended ripple effects.

Victoria Song
Grammarly’s sloppelganger saga

AI-generated ‘Expert Reviews’ weren’t a hit with users or experts.

Stevie Bonifield
How the Apple Watch defined modern health tech

Digital health screeners weren’t a thing until the Apple Watch. It’s shaped how we think about wearables ever since.

Victoria Song
Apple’s long, bitter App Store antitrust war

Apple’s iPhone empire spans the globe — and so does legal pushback.

Adi Robertson
These ‘clinically tested’ gummies may or may not help you poop

Who’s to say? Not Grüns’ clinical study.

Victoria Song
Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next

Lawmakers don’t want VPNs to stand in the way of online age verification.

Emma Roth
Much ado about protein

Boy kibble, proteinmaxxing, protein washing. The wellness Wild West’s obsession with one macro is getting out of hand.

Victoria Song
Live-service games are a mess

These are not normal video games.

Andrew Webster
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Antonio G. Di Benedetto
The uncomfortable truth about hybrid vehicles

Plug-in hybrid owners rarely actually plug in their vehicles, practically negating the climate advantages of the technology.

Andrew J. Hawkins
Trump’s surgeon general nominee is running the wellness grifter playbook perfectly

Casey Means says her “Good Energy habits” can prevent cancer.

Victoria Song
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Anthropic CEO says refusal to pander to Trump caused Pentagon blowup.

In a scathing 1,600 word memo to employees sent on Friday, CEO Dario Amodei suggested Anthropic’s relationship with the government soured because, unlike OpenAI or its executives, “we haven’t donated to Trump” and “we haven’t given dictator-style praise to Trump.”

The leaked remarks could complicate Amodei’s last-ditch efforts to salvage the company’s relationship with the US military and prevent it from being iced out of defense work.

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Charles Pulliam-Moore and Kallie Plagge
How MLB can make baseball relevant on a fast-changing internet

The old sport is going all-in on chasing virality.

Mia Sato
Huel tries to solve the ‘burden’ of eating

Technically, it’s food. (It doesn’t taste like it.)

Victoria Song