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.
Artificial Intelligence
The dawn of a new machine age.
The Guitar Sounds New Again
The grungy, extraterrestrial “Mk.gee tone” is everywhere and depends on a decades-old device.
The Strange Origin of AI’s ‘Reasoning’ Abilities
It involves 4chan, of all places.
The Great Travel Meltdown of 2026
Airports are suffering a perfect storm of actual problems and passenger anxieties.
The Opposite of Slop Politics
Zohran Mamdani ran an online campaign based on real people and a real message. It worked.
The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers
“You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet,” Common Crawl’s executive director says.
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
What Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Thinks About Hitler, Putin, and Apartheid
The next step in Musk’s propaganda machine
The Age of De-Skilling
Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them?
Tilly Norwood Is Not Ready for Its Closeup
AI is still too nascent to be a savvy investment or an existential threat, at least for now.
My Students Use AI. So What?
Young people are reading less and relying on bots, but there are other ways to teach people how to think.
OpenAI Wants to Cure Cancer. So Why Did It Make a Web Browser?
The AI giant has lost its imagination.
A Tool That Crushes Creativity
AI slop is winning.
Adiós, AirPods
Apple promises to put an AI interpreter in everyone’s ears. It couldn’t even help me order tamales.