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.
How AI Is Creeping Into The New York Times
Artificial intelligence seems to be turning up, undisclosed, in the opinion pages of major news publications.
How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years
Ask yourself: Are you coal, or are you a horse?
The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the AI Industry
Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours.
Friendship, on Demand
AI chatbots offer relationships that are low effort and completely personalized—and hollow.
The Myspace Dilemma Facing ChatGPT
Inventing a market is less important than perfecting one.
The Human Skill That Eludes AI
Why can’t language models write well?
The Fake Images of a Real Strike on a School
The spread of fake photos of the Iran war is helping make the question Is this real? all but unanswerable.
What Was Grammarly Thinking?
A short-lived AI tool promised to help users write like the greats—and a bunch of other random people, including me.
Even Silicon Valley Says That AI Is a Bubble
An AI crash could bring down the economy. Some in the tech world think that’s the price of progress.
Dario Amodei’s Oppenheimer Moment
It came earlier than expected.