Bluesky’s rise and AI’s fall

The Verge‘s Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Sarah Jeong discuss Bluesky gaining popularity and why it may be Twitter’s most chaotic successor.

Also: is AI going too far too soon?

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