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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
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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
America desperately needs new privacy laws

Invasive government and corporate surveillance isn’t inevitable — but Congress needs to act.

Adi Robertson
The latest skincare fad is rubbing salmon sperm on your face

Skinfluencers swear topical salmon-sperm serums will make your skin glow. The reality is a bit less impressive.

Victoria Song
It’s MAGA v Broligarch in the battle over prediction markets

Prediction: This is going to be a mess for the Trump right.

Tina Nguyen
‘Wellness’ feels like it’s losing all meaning in health tech

Oura is lobbying for relaxed wearables regulation. It has a point, but is regulation even the problem here?

Victoria Song
Bezos could have saved The Washington Post’s local news and sports reporters

Plus: DC thinks Bezos is a bastard; Newsmax goes to war with Nexstar; and more in this week’s Regulator.

Tina Nguyen
Netflix’s Warner Bros. merger puts rival streamers in survival mode

The $82.7 billion deal will force Paramount Plus, Disney Plus, Peacock, Apple TV, and other rivals to make some changes.

Emma Roth
AG1 is a lot less science-y than it sounds

Athletic Greens is ‘clinically backed.’ What does that even mean?

Victoria Song
This Town, 2.0

Tech surrenders to the daily chaos of Washington politicking.

Tina Nguyen
The telephoto is the only phone camera that really matters

Phone manufacturers are throwing everything they have at long-distance lenses in order to stand out.

Dominic Preston
The lonely promise of cute robots

Mirumi is adorable. But living with it reminded me of the limits to the companionship a social robot can provide.

Victoria Song
The crypto bill is falling apart in Congress

A political comms professional breaks down Trump’s meme media strategy.

Tina Nguyen
The great e-bike crackdown has begun

New Jersey just approved a wildly out-of-step new law that restricts all e-bikes, regardless of speed or power capabilities. Will other states follow?

Andrew J. Hawkins