Why Trump must build a nuclear reactor on the Moon
The plan would be to set down a placeholder nuclear reactor and then declare an exclusion zone
Technology
Sunday
Friday
A global MAGA crusade against web regulation?
We are often – wrongly – told that MAGA is simply a politics of expediency and national self-interest
Thursday
Trump gives the government to the machines
‘It’s not artificial, it’s genius’
Tuesday
The real threat of AI is spiritual
We’re primed to think of any existential threat from computers as fiction
What happens when AI surpasses humans?
Old technology doesn’t disappear because it’s bad: it disappears because it’s outcompeted
The race to superintelligence
Whoever owns the winning model will wield unimaginable power
Should AI have rights?
Some scientists believe they might be creating life
How should AI be regulated?
The mistakes and successes of earlier tech revolutions should be pondered
The internet is dying and so are we
If we aren’t dead inside already, tech is doing its best
Monday
Musk’s chatbot stumbles again
No living human has had a week as tumultuous as Grok
Sunday
The iPod reboot
Music ‘just has more value on an iPod’
Saturday
How AI will reignite woke
Woke politics are a way of signifying that you are high-status – and all of this status anxiety is about to be supercharged by AI
Monday
The tech right-MAGA alliance is far from over
The tech right wants to build for America. That’s good
America’s new stealth jets don’t need pilots
Humans should be pushed out of the cockpit
Wednesday
Inside the parents versus social media conflict at the FTC
A panel discussed child exploitation stats and laid out proposed solutions for parents
Tuesday
How China is out-innovating the West
The West, bloated on its own hype, now faces a leaner competitor
The frightening advance of China’s military capabilities
Close observers, including Putin, have noted Chinese military R&D has surpassed Russia and the West
Inside the struggle for technological control in South Africa
The larger concern isn’t domestic equity – but China
How deepfake fraud is rewiring our minds
All Americans are going to learn what it’s like to live in central New York City – but worse
The architects of ‘AI rights’ are a threat to humanity
Inside the body-denying ideology moving fast towards a technological dystopia