Taylor Lorenz’s Power User

Taylor Lorenz discusses the "Manifest" conference with journalist Alex Bronzini, revealing how Silicon Valley rationalists use prediction markets to…

Sarah McLoughlin discusses how the UN Cybercrime Convention and national laws in countries like Malaysia, Zambia, and China use anti-hacking mandates…

Tech journalist Natasha Tiku joins Taylor Lorenz to dissect the viral AI doomsday claims by researcher Jacob Coxton and the growing influence of the effective altruism movement on AI policy.

Max, a reporter at Semaphore, joins Taylor Lorenz to expose a network of "ghost creator" YouTube channels using paid actors and AI scripts to spread political misinformation.

Taylor Lorenz and Lawrence Schlossman trace the evolution of tech merch from 1980s Apple lifestyle catalogs to modern AI apparel drops.

Taylor Lorenz interviews Adam Rose about Richard Pereias, an independent journalist detained by ICE after documenting raids.

Taylor Lorenz interviews journalist Jasmine Sun about the bipartisan backlash against AI data centers in rural America.

Taylor Lorenz interviews Laz Piper and Peter Van Valkenburgh of Coin Center about the Digital Age Assurance Act, arguing that age verification mandates constitute censorship.

Taylor Lorenz interviews Washington Post journalist Garrett DeVink about the growing "Pause AI" movement, led by figures like Eliezer Yudkowsky and…

Taylor Lorenz and guest Neil Chilson discuss Anthropic’s global implementation of AI text watermarking to comply with the EU AI Act.

Taylor Lorenz interviews New York Times reporter Mike Isaac about Mark Zuckerberg’s recent AI manifesto, which promotes open-source models and a…

Taylor Lorenz interviews Rebecca Jennings about DoubleSpeed, an AI startup founded by 21-year-old Zuhair Lakhani.

Taylor Lorenz interviews investigative journalist Andrew Fedorov about the Prairieland case, where activists received harsh sentences for protesting an ICE facility.

Taylor Lorenz interviews WSJ reporter Berber Jinn about the dramatic rise and fall of Leopold Aschenbrenner, a 24-year-old former OpenAI researcher who managed a $20 billion hedge fund.

Taylor Lorenz and legal scholar Jeff Kosseff analyze Minnesota’s controversial AI law, which imposes strict liability on tech providers for generating non-consensual intimate imagery.

Taylor Lorenz and copyright lawyer Derek Slater debunk viral claims that Anthropic is destroying rare books for AI training.

Taylor Lorenz and Andrea Dominick dissect the viral controversy surrounding a "no influencers" sign at a historic Nantucket shop, analyzing it as a…