Artificial Intelligence in 2026: A Comprehensive Bibliography

A Curated Collection of 151 Significant Articles from 2024–2026

Technical Capabilities & Innovation

1. Dustin Volz. "Anthropic A.I. Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms." The New York Times, July 28, 2026. Read
2. Siobhan Roberts. "These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test." The New York Times, February 7, 2026. Read
3. Shafik Quoraishee. "Why You're Better Than a Computer at Solving Connections." The New York Times, December 9, 2025. Read
4. Cade Metz, Karen Weise, Marco Hernandez, Mike Isaac, and Anjali Singhvi. "How A.I. Is Changing the Way the World Builds Computers." The New York Times, March 16, 2025. Read
5. Christopher Mims. "This Innovation Could Make the Perfect Silicon Chip—and End Moore's Law." The New York Times, February 27, 2026. Read
6. Adam Satariano, Paul Mozur, Jacqueline Gu, and Cade Metz. "The Impending, Inescapable Deluge of A.I." The New York Times, July 29, 2026. Read
7. Adam Mastroianni. "The Environmental Case Against Data Centers Is Misguided." The New York Times, July 25, 2026. Read
8. Cade Metz. "Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data." The New York Times, February 23, 2026. Read
9. Cade Metz. "Jeff Bezos Wants to Build an 'Artificial General Engineer'." The New York Times, June 11, 2026. Read
10. Cade Metz. "Study A.I. Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You." The New York Times, August 31, 2026. Read
11. Kim Mackrael. "The Race to Make the World's Most In-Demand Machine." The Wall Street Journal, April 25, 2026. Read
12. Robbie Whelan and Katherine Blunt. "Google Is Using Nvidia's Playbook to Build a Rival AI Chip Business." The Wall Street Journal, June 18, 2026. Read
13. Meaghan Tobin and Cade Metz. "Anthropic Says Chinese Hackers Used Its A.I. in Online Attack." The New York Times, November 14, 2025. Read
14. Kate Clark. "Nvidia Licenses Groq's AI Technology as Demand for Cutting-Edge Chips Grows." The Wall Street Journal, December 24, 2025. Read
15. Heather Somerville. "Peter Thiel-Backed Startup Secures $100 Million to Make Chips in U.S." The Wall Street Journal, October 28, 2025. Read

Corporate Strategy & Markets

16. Adam Clark. "Here's the Real Reason Nvidia Is Buying Hugging Face." Barron's, September 4, 2026. Read
17. Berber Jin and Robbie Whelan. "The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice." The Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2026. Read
18. Kate Clark and Katherine Blunt. "Google Expands Anthropic Investment With $40 Billion Commitment." The Wall Street Journal, April 24, 2026. Read
19. Berber Jin, Dana Mattioli, Alexander Saeedy, and Raffaele Huang. "Jeff Bezos in Talks to Raise $100 Billion for AI Manufacturing Fund." The Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2026. Read
20. Berber Jin. "This AI Startup Wants to Remake the $800 Billion Chip Industry." The Wall Street Journal, December 2, 2025. Read
21. Asa Fitch. "AI Is Making Big Tech Weaker." The Wall Street Journal, November 16, 2025. Read
22. Meghan Bobrowsky and Tina Li. "Google's AI Spending Spree Has Investors Nervous." The Wall Street Journal, July 22, 2026. Read
23. Eli Tan and Mike Isaac. "Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal." The New York Times, July 17, 2026. Read
24. Eli Tan. "Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I." The New York Times, September 4, 2026. Read
25. Berber Jin and Miles Kruppa. "AI Search Startup Perplexity Set to Double Valuation to $1 Billion." The Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2024. Read
26. Berber Jin and Corrie Driebusch. "OpenAI Wants to Go Public. First Sarah Friar Needs to Get It to Grow Up." The Wall Street Journal, May 1, 2026. Read
27. Alexandra Bruell. "News Corp, Meta in AI Content Licensing Deal Worth Up to $50 Million a Year." The Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2026. Read
28. Joseph De Avila and Becky Peterson. "SpaceX's $60 Billion Deal to Buy Cursor Gives It More AI Coding Power." The Wall Street Journal, June 16, 2026. Read
29. Meghan Bobrowsky. "Meet Mark Zuckerberg's Right-Hand Man Who's Unleashing AI at Meta." The Wall Street Journal, May 24, 2026. Read
30. Isabella Simonetti. "An AI Upheaval Is Coming for Media. This Journalist Is Already All In." The Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2026. Read
31. Ben Cohen, Berber Jin, and James Benedict. "All the Juiciest Evidence From the Blockbuster OpenAI Trial." The Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2026. Read
32. Jim Carlton, Keach Hagey, and Angel Au-Yeung. "The Messy Courtroom Drama Over AI's Biggest Breakup." The Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2026. Read
33. Georgia Wells and Angel Au-Yeung. "Jury Rejects Musk's Claims Against OpenAI." The Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2026. Read
34. Georgia Wells and Sam Schechner. "OpenAI Executive Who Opposed 'Adult Mode' Fired for Sexual Discrimination." The Wall Street Journal, February 10, 2026. Read
35. Georgia Wells. "OpenAI Sued by Florida's Attorney General Over AI Harms." The Wall Street Journal, June 1, 2026. Read

Employment & Labor Economics

36. Clive Thompson. "Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It." The New York Times, March 12, 2026. Read
37. Lindsay Ellis. "The Boss Has a Message: Use AI or You're Fired." The Wall Street Journal, November 7, 2025. Read
38. Patricia Cohen. "A.I. Doesn't Have to Mean Layoffs." The New York Times, May 29, 2026. Read
39. Jim Tankersley. "Can You Embrace A.I. Without Layoffs? This Company Says It's Trying." The New York Times, July 2, 2026. Read
40. Jean Eaglesham. "State Farm's AI Plan for Sales Agents Sparks Uproar. 'A Real Slap in the Face.'" The Wall Street Journal, June 17, 2026. Read
41. Noam Scheiber. "We're Only Starting to Grasp the Pitfalls of Using A.I. at Work." The New York Times, June 29, 2026. Read
42. Katherine Bindley. "Job Seekers Find a New Source of Income: Training AI to Do Their Old Roles." The Wall Street Journal, January 11, 2026. Read
43. Benjamin Wallace. "The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors." The New York Times, July 5, 2026. Read
44. Asa Fitch. "Big Tech Is Eating Itself in Talent War." The Wall Street Journal, August 16, 2025. Read
45. Lauren Weber and Lindsay Ellis. "The Jobs Most Exposed to ChatGPT." The Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2023. Read
46. Kami Rieck. "Working in A.I. Lifted Their Compensation. Now They Want Prenups." The New York Times, February 14, 2026. Read
47. Keith Ferrazzi. "We Interviewed A.I. Agents. They Nailed Your Co-Workers' Worst Habits." The New York Times, July 24, 2026. Read
48. Noam Scheiber. "Which Workers Will A.I. Hurt Most: The Young or the Experienced?" The New York Times, July 7, 2025. Read
49. Sarah E. Needleman. "Tech Layoffs Just Keep Coming as Sector Resets for AI." The Wall Street Journal, February 6, 2024. Read
50. Katherine Bindley. "Tech Workers Retool for Artificial-Intelligence Boom." The Wall Street Journal, May 26, 2024. Read

Education & Learning

51. Dana Goldstein. "What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?" The New York Times, August 17, 2026. Read
52. Dana Goldstein. "Los Angeles District Bans Most A.I. for Students." The New York Times, September 3, 2026. Read
53. Matthew Haag. "New York City Bans A.I. in Elementary and Middle Schools." The New York Times, September 1, 2026. Read
54. Natasha Singer. "How Big Tech Captured American Schools." The New York Times, August 23, 2026. Read
55. Rebecca Winthrop. "What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.'s Effects on Creativity." The New York Times, May 27, 2026. Read
56. Josh Tyrangiel. "OpenAI and Khan Academy Made a Chatbot. What Can We Learn?" The New York Times, May 16, 2026. Read
57. Natasha Singer. "Google Turns On Gemini A.I. for Students Using Its Classroom App." The New York Times, August 14, 2026. Read
58. Natasha Singer. "As Schools Embrace A.I. Tools, Skeptics Raise Concerns." The New York Times, January 2, 2026. Read
59. Natasha Singer. "Chromebook Remorse: Tech Backlash at Schools Extends Beyond Phones." The New York Times, March 29, 2026. Read
60. Matthew Connelly. "A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education." The New York Times, February 12, 2026. Read
61. Pooja Salhotra. "A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You." The New York Times, July 27, 2025. Read
62. Theo Baker. "What A.I. Did to My College Class." The New York Times, May 17, 2026. Read

Society & Culture

63. Anna Wiener. "Love in the Time of A.I. Companions." The New Yorker, March 9, 2026. Read
64. Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Kashmir Hill. "How Bad Are A.I. Delusions? We Asked People Treating Them." The New York Times, January 26, 2026. Read
65. Jessica Contrera. "When A.I. Is a Member of the Family." The New Yorker, July 13, 2026. Read
66. Kashmir Hill. "What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots." The New York Times, April 4, 2026. Read
67. Joseph Bernstein. "It Makes Sense That People See A.I. as God." The New York Times, January 23, 2026. Read
68. Jill Lepore. "Are You a Human?" The New Yorker, August 10, 2026. Read
69. Gideon Lewis-Kraus. "What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn't Know, Either." The New Yorker, February 9, 2026. Read
70. Michael Schulman. "Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece." The New Yorker, February 2, 2026. Read
71. Julie Jargon. "His Chatbot Nearly Ruined Him. To Recover, He Had to Destroy It." The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 2026. Read
72. Ken Bensinger and Tiffany Hsu. "An Amish Avatar and an A.I. Monk Are Pitching Supplements on Social Media." The New York Times, March 9, 2026. Read
73. Taffy Brodesser-Akner. "I Profile Celebrities for a Living. Nothing Prepared Me for Tilly Norwood." The New York Times, May 31, 2026. Read
74. Stuart A. Thompson. "I Tried to Sell My House With a Chatbot." The New York Times, May 28, 2026. Read
75. Steven Lee Myers. "Those Soldiers Flooding Your Feeds? They Might Not Be Real." The New York Times, July 7, 2026. Read

Governance & Policy

76. David E. Sanger and Dustin Volz. "As Fears of A.I. Catastrophe Magnify, Washington Stirs, but Mostly Slumbers." The New York Times, September 13, 2026. Read
77. Jonathan Swan and Michael Gold. "Trump Says a Smart President Is All That's Needed to Rein In A.I." The New York Times, September 14, 2026. Read
78. Tripp Mickle, Julian E. Barnes, Sheera Frenkel, and Dustin Volz. "White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released." The New York Times, May 4, 2026. Read
79. Jill Lepore. "Does A.I. Need a Constitution?" The New Yorker, March 23, 2026. Read
80. Emmy Martin and Rebecca Lieberman. "How A.I. Risks Are Splitting Silicon Valley and Washington." The New York Times, September 15, 2026. Read
81. Amrith Ramkumar, Brian Schwartz, and Natalie Andrews. "How Anthropic's Mythos Threw the White House AI Strategy Into Chaos." The Wall Street Journal, May 7, 2026. Read
82. John O'Farrell. "We Can't Let My Former Venture Capital Colleagues Buy Off Our Democracy." The New York Times, June 11, 2026. Read
83. Maia Spoto and Jill Cowan. "As A.I. Fears Rise, Experts Suggest Focusing on the Humans in Charge." The New York Times, September 14, 2026. Read
84. Shane Goldmacher. "Google Just Made It Easier for Campaigns to Send You Fund-Raising Emails." The New York Times, August 18, 2026. Read
85. Jennifer Medina. "'Who Should I Vote for?' Voters Turn to A.I. Before Casting Their Ballots." The New York Times, July 4, 2026. Read
86. Stuart A. Thompson. "How A.I. Is Changing the Way Politicians Run for Office." The New York Times, June 29, 2026. Read
87. Santul Nerkar. "Federal Trial Against Huawei Begins After 8 Years." The New York Times, September 9, 2026. Read

International Competition

88. Ana Swanson, Paul Mozur, Tripp Mickle, and Keith Bradsher. "How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America's Best A.I. Chips." The New York Times, September 6, 2026. Read
89. Josh Chin and Raffaele Huang. "Inside China's All-Out Push to Catch Up With American AI Chips." The Wall Street Journal, July 23, 2026. Read
90. David Pierson and Berry Wang. "Why China's A.I. Models Could Threaten the Communist Party." The New York Times, July 30, 2026. Read
91. Lily Kuo and Pei-Lin Wu. "For China, a Mock A.I. Attack on WeChat Signals a Dangerous New Era." The New York Times, September 11, 2026. Read
92. Raffaele Huang. "What to Know About the Chinese AI Models Rattling U.S. Stocks." The Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2026. Read
93. Ross Douthat. "China's A.I. Play Is Different From America's." The New York Times, July 18, 2026. Read
94. Vivian Wang. "Where Are China's A.I. Doomers?" The New York Times, March 4, 2026. Read
95. Raffaele Huang. "Silicon Valley Is Raving About a Made-in-China AI Model." The Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2025. Read
96. Liza Lin. "Nvidia's Huang Calls U.S. Export Controls a Failure." The Wall Street Journal, May 21, 2025. Read
97. Tal Feldman. "The Hidden Cost of China's Free A.I." The New York Times, July 29, 2026. Read
98. Angel Au-Yeung. "The Palantir Mafia Behind Silicon Valley's Hottest Startups." The Wall Street Journal, August 15, 2025. Read
99. Robert McMillan and Sarah Krouse. "A Disney Worker Downloaded an AI Tool. It Led to a Hack That Ruined His Life." The Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2025. Read
100. Shalini Ramachandran, Heather Somerville, and Amrith Ramkumar. "Government Agencies Raise Alarm About Use of Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot." The Wall Street Journal, February 27, 2026. Read
101. Devlin Barrett, William K. Rashbaum, and Julian E. Barnes. "Inside Intelligence Agencies, a Fight Over Building a Master List of Spies." The New York Times, June 29, 2026. Read

Safety, Risk & Regulation

102. Dustin Volz. "Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons." The New York Times, September 10, 2026. Read
103. Gabriel J.X. Dance. "A.I. Bots Told Scientists How to Make Biological Weapons." The New York Times, April 29, 2026. Read
104. Sheera Frenkel. "A.I. Is Becoming So Powerful, It's Stumping Those Trying to Contain It." The New York Times, August 25, 2026. Read
105. Kate Conger. "Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration." The New York Times, September 9, 2026. Read
106. Sebastian Mallaby. "Dario Amodei's Essay Was Gutsy. It Didn't Go Far Enough." The New York Times, September 14, 2026. Read
107. Michelle Goldberg. "Why Tech Oligarchs Are Willing to Risk Apocalypse." The New York Times, September 12, 2026. Read
108. Sam Schechner. "Their Job Is to Push Computers Toward AI Doom." The Wall Street Journal, December 10, 2024. Read
109. Natallie Rocha. "Google and Character.AI to Settle Lawsuit Over Teenager's Death." The New York Times, January 7, 2026. Read
110. Cecilia Kang, Ryan Mac, and Eli Tan. "Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case." The New York Times, March 25, 2026. Read
111. Mike Isaac. "Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Make Sure His Competitors Share His Pain." The New York Times, August 27, 2026. Read
112. Cecilia Kang and Eli Tan. "How Meta's $17.1 Billion Social Media Settlement Came Together." The New York Times, August 29, 2026. Read
113. Natasha Singer and Kate Conger. "Google Is Fined $170 Million for Violating Children's Privacy on YouTube." The New York Times, September 4, 2019. Read
114. Sarah Kessler. "All Those A.I. Note Takers? They're Making Lawyers Very Nervous." The New York Times, May 9, 2026. Read
115. Bret Stephens. "I'm Begging You: Never Write With A.I." The New York Times, August 4, 2026. Read
116. Brett J. Goldstein. "Stop Testing A.I. Like an App. Test It Like a Weapon." The New York Times, July 30, 2026. Read
117. Lindsay Ellis, Zusha Elinson, and Tina Li. "The AI Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives." The Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2026. Read
118. Teddy Rosenbluth. "He Warned About the Dangers of A.I. If Only His Father Had Listened." The New York Times, April 13, 2026. Read
119. Maia Szalavitz. "I've Struggled With Addiction. I'm Staying Away From A.I. Chatbots." The New York Times, July 19, 2026. Read
120. Paul Ford. "A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It." The New York Times, September 12, 2026. Read
121. Alex Perry. "ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Goes Smaller and Cheaper With New AI Tech." The Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2024. Read

Business & Finance

122. Charley Grant. "AI Is Driving 'the Next Industrial Revolution.' Wall Street Is Cashing In." The Wall Street Journal, May 27, 2024. Read
123. Christopher Mims. "The AI Revolution Is Already Losing Steam." The Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2024. Read
124. Dan Gallagher. "Apple Is Playing an Expensive Game of AI Catch-Up." The Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2024. Read
125. Dan Gallagher. "Why Nvidia Needs to Appeal to a Bigger Crowd." The Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2025. Read
126. Rolfe Winkler. "Inside Apple's Push to Build an All-American Chip." The Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2026. Read
127. Rolfe Winkler. "Apple to Raise Prices Due to Memory Chip Crunch, Tim Cook Says." The Wall Street Journal, June 17, 2026. Read
128. Rolfe Winkler. "Apple's 'Thermonuclear' Response to the OpenAI Threat." The Wall Street Journal, July 12, 2026. Read
129. Jonathan Weil. "Microsoft's Dealings With OpenAI Still Need a Lot More Sunlight." The Wall Street Journal, November 10, 2025. Read
130. Jonathan Weil. "Meta Rakes It In, Yet Still Borrows Billions for AI." The Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2026. Read
131. Justin Lahart. "The Data-Center Boom Is Sparking a Third Wave of Inflation." The Wall Street Journal, June 24, 2026. Read
132. Kalley Huang, Mike Isaac, and Karen Weise. "President Trump Is on the Line About an A.I. Slowdown." The New York Times, September 14, 2026. Read
133. Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz. "Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?" The New Yorker, April 6, 2026. Read
134. Lora Kelley. "To A.I. Executives, We're All Just 'Meat Computers'." The New York Times, May 24, 2026. Read
135. Sri Muppidi. "To Know What Your Customers Think, Just Ask Their A.I. Twins." The New York Times, July 30, 2026. Read
136. Steve Lohr. "Have a Thorny Medical Question? Your Doctor May Be Using A.I. for That." The New York Times, June 8, 2026. Read
137. Melissa Korn. "Rare-Book Sales Are Booming. They're Getting Sliced Up and Fed to AI." The Wall Street Journal, August 22, 2026. Read
138. Alexander Saeedy, Berber Jin, Emily Glazer, and Becky Peterson. "Tesla Is Obsessed With Musk's Pay Package. Musk Is Obsessed With AI." The Wall Street Journal, November 4, 2025. Read
139. Tim Higgins. "Why One of Tech's Biggest Gamblers Is Betting Against Elon Musk's AI Vision." The Wall Street Journal, June 27, 2026. Read
140. Theo Francis and Kara Dapena. "How Larry Ellison's Wealth Differs From Other Tech Billionaires." The Wall Street Journal, April 27, 2026. Read
141. Vivienne Ming. "AI Is Cannibalizing Human Intelligence. Here's How to Stop It." The Wall Street Journal, April 24, 2026. Read

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