The Allbirds Pivot Is a Terrible Idea … Right?
Its turn to AI could be an escape hatch for a company with nothing to lose.
Artificial Intelligence
The dawn of a new machine age.
AI’s Next Frontier: People Skills
Imagine a chatbot that actually knows how to talk to you.
A New Kind of Hybrid Car Is About to Hit America’s Streets
The car industry says it has an answer for drivers wary of going electric.
The Guitar Sounds New Again
The grungy, extraterrestrial “Mk.gee tone” is everywhere and depends on a decades-old device.
Why So Many People Are Seduced by ChatGPT
What makes OpenAI’s chatbot so dangerous? It’s a fictional character without an author.
Job Interviews Are Broken
People are sneaking answers from AI, and who can blame them?
The Most Reviled Tech CEO in New York Confronts His Haters
Avi Schiffmann says he’s enjoying the angry reaction to the Friend AI pendant. Is he serious?
Move Fast and Break Nothing
Waymo’s robotaxis are probably safer than ChatGPT.
The Alien Intelligence in Your Pocket
Are you sure that chatbot isn’t alive?
ChatGPT Resurrected My Dead Father
My own private Frankenstein
The Doomed Dream of an AI Matchmaker
No one really knows for sure what makes people fall in love.
Chatbait Is Taking Over the Internet
How chatbots keep you talking
Have You Considered Not Polluting the Water?
The tech industry will do anything to solve our loneliness epidemic except stop causing it in the first place.
The Useful Idiots of AI Doomsaying
Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.