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 People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
Rise of the LLeMmings
The World Still Hasn’t Made Sense of ChatGPT
OpenAI’s chaos machine turns three.
Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
Welcome to the Slopverse
Generative AI isn’t hallucinatory. It is multiversal.
Chatbots Are Becoming Really, Really Good Criminals
Cybersecurity was already a nightmare. Now comes AI.
Elon Musk Is Trying to Rewrite History
Why did Grok say he’s better than Jesus?
How to Cheat at Conversation
A new AI tool promises to improve social interactions but instead makes them worse.
Tesla Wants to Build a Robot Army
And so does the rest of the auto industry
The New Brutality of OpenAI
The company is pursuing aggressive legal tactics against its opponents.
The Costs of Instant Translation
AI might soon rob us of the thrill and challenge of cross-cultural conversation.