Meta’s brain-to-text tech is here. We are not remotely ready.
Elon Musk has arguably been the boldest broligarch when it comes to brain-machine interfaces. But Mark Zuckerberg is hot on ...
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AI can use your computer now. Should it?
The first time I heard about AI agents, I thought they could monitor your computer use, anticipate your needs, and ...
Using ChatGPT to write an email? Sure. But an obituary?
When his grandmother died about two years ago, Jebar King, the writer of his family, was tasked with drafting her ...
DeepSeek is bad for Silicon Valley. But it might be great for you.
When it comes to AI, I’d consider myself a casual user and a curious one. It’s been creeping into my ...
OpenAI’s new anti-jobs program
On Tuesday, I was thinking I might write a story about the implications of the Trump administration’s repeal of the ...
Trump’s attack on EVs is just theater — so far
As President Donald Trump’s first week in office comes to a close, his biggest accomplishments are things many of us ...
Trump coin: Why the crypto industry is mad at the president
Three days before taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump launched his own crypto asset: $TRUMP. By the eve ...
It’s getting harder to measure just how good AI is getting
Toward the end of 2024, I offered a take on all the talk about whether AI’s “scaling laws” were hitting ...
I visited our tech future. It’s not actually a terrible place.
LAS VEGAS — When I stepped on the showroom floor in Las Vegas at CES, the largest tech industry trade ...
The 10(ish) most read Future Perfect stories of 2024
It’s that time of year. As Future Perfect has in the past, we’re rounding up our most read stories of ...
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