The Download: AI's popularity paradox and EmTech Future 2026

Plus: Trump has unveiled a "Super Intelligence Force" to oversee AI. People really hate AI, so why can't they get enough? Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM designed to come up with a wide variety of responses . He said something that's been stuck in my head since: "We often say that we're a self-loathing AI company. We don't know if we really like what we're doing." "I guess that makes me a self-loathing AI journalist."