Lyft CEO David Risher brought a colorful colloquialism to his second annual letter to shareholders: enshittification. "It describes the ongoing degradation of a once-great product or experience, often ...

This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. Sign up here! A few years ago, Cory Doctorow coined a word that took the internet by storm. It appeared everywhere, including in our newsletter that ...

Google.ai is a new front-end for Google's AI services. Currently, it's free, ad-free, and delivers uncluttered answers to ...

IF THE INTERNET feels worse than ever recently, the good news is that there are many people who agree with you. The bad news is that your brain might be suffering as a result. The slow erosion, or ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. There’s an increasingly popular theory about why: “enshittification.” The term, ...

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Attorney General of Australia Michelle Rowland rejected proposals by the country’s own think-tank that wanted to give tech companies rights to mine copyrighted content for training Generative AI. The ...

Cory Doctorow is correct about how algorithms end up ruining good services. However, I experience little to no enshittification, probably because I don’t do so-called social media, and I pay to use ...

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