The brain tech revolution is here — and it isn’t all Black Mirror
When you hear the word “neurotechnology,” you may picture Black Mirror headsets prying open the last private place we have ...
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You can get unfathomably rich building AI. Should you?
It’s a good time to be a highly in-demand AI engineer. To lure leading researchers away from OpenAI and other ...
Trump just handed China a major advantage on on AI
Late on Monday night, July 14, 2025, the ninth richest man in the world broke some momentous news: The US ...
Grok’s MechaHitler disaster is a preview of AI disasters to come
From the beginning, Elon Musk has marketed Grok, the chatbot integrated into X, as the unwoke AI that would give ...
Is ChatGPT killing higher education?
What’s the point of college if no one’s actually doing the work?It’s not a rhetorical question. More and more students ...
AI systems could become conscious. What if they hate their lives?
This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, ...
AI doesn’t have to reason to take your job
In 2023, one popular perspective on AI went like this: Sure, it can generate lots of impressive text, but it ...
What we learned the last time we put AI in a Barbie
The first big Christmas gift I remember getting was an animatronic bear named Teddy Ruxpin. Thanks to a cassette tape ...
Why Trump probably can’t cut Musk loose
Breaking up is hard to do — especially when one party is a billionaire with near-unassailable dominance of the nation’s ...
AI can now stalk you with just a single vacation photo
For decades, digital privacy advocates have been warning the public to be more careful about what we share online. And ...
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