Inside the fight over America’s data centers
Make no mistake: Americans hate data centers.A recent poll from Gallup shows 70 percent of Americans oppose a data center ...
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Could you spot an AI-written book?
However you feel about AI writing, it has a few giveaways. According to the writer Imogen West-Knights, “there’s things like ...
The 5 most unhinged revelations from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI
Friendship breakups are never easy, but few are as messy and expensive as the collapse of Elon Musk and Sam ...
Are humanoid robots all hype?
Humanoid robots have been everywhere lately.They’re running half-marathons in Beijing. They’re chasing wild boars off the streets of Warsaw. They’re ...
The old tech that could help stop the next airborne pandemic
It’s hard to imagine modern life without glycols. They are used in cosmetics, fog machines, and food. As you read ...
The case for AI realism
In 1964, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke predicted that computers would overtake human evolution.“Present-day electronic brains are complete morons, ...
OpenAI is pivoting to…socialism?
OpenAI wants to raise taxes on the rich, expand the welfare state, let workers decide how their employers use artificial ...
The contradiction at the heart of OpenAI
Big changes are happening at OpenAI. On Wednesday, the company announced that it would be shutting down their AI video ...
Hey Google, stop trying to write my emails!
I first noticed it when, a few months ago, I opened an email from Ian, my literary agent. Before I’d ...
What baseball’s “robot umpires” tell us about the future of work
For a sport that’s more than 150 years old, the opening of the 2026 Major League Baseball season is set ...
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