Black Mirror season seven offers a welcome return to form
The high-class latest installment allows audiences to relish great storytelling, done extremely well
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Monday
Wednesday
ChatGPT is destroying creativity
Generative AI soaks up a huge amount of computing power – and it’s thirsty
Sunday
Recession? What recession?
No one knows how President Trump’s efforts to use American tariffs to force our trading partners to lower theirs will turn out
How AI helps the tech giants
Artificial intelligence will help tech giants get even bigger. What will it mean for their human employees?
Why everybody should have seen the Google Gemini blunder coming
Why didn’t the tech geniuses at Google foresee these unintended consequences?
Friday
Doomers looks at what AI means for the future
Someone — I forget who — suggested the idea of my play as a joke, and I thought it was a good one
Monday
Can an AI friend solve the loneliness epidemic?
The friends that greeted me on Friend.com weren’t insightful or socially adept
Thursday
The Spectator’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide
Our staff and regulars help you spread goodwill to all men
Thursday
How long has Hollywood been out of ideas?
What’s changed in recent years isn’t the instinct to take safe bets on already popular content — it’s that those bets are no longer paying off
Monday
Letters from Spectator readers, July 2024
Normandy, Philly and crushing the cartels
Wednesday
AI and the new way of war
The killer robots are coming
Summer flavor pairings
How do we work out which foods go together?
Tuesday
Is the West ready to face the challenges of advancing technology?
The rest of the world is playing with a different rulebook
Wednesday
Biden uses the gilded cage of the White House to his advantage
It isn’t a basement, but it’ll do
Sunday
AI music is here and scarily easy to make
I made a Spectator album in minutes
Friday
Could AI ruin the election?
The detection systems to separate real footage from AI-generated are completely losing the arms race
Tuesday
The tech I’m looking forward to in 2024
Premium screens, standout laptops and AI will be huge this year
Friday
The gap between technotopia and dystopia are never far apart
Mustafa Suleyman’s new book is a rousing call-to-arms for humanity
Wednesday
What does the end of the WGA strike really mean?
At first glance, this suggests that business as usual can resume, but the actors’ strike continues
Wednesday
The (r)evolution of Lauren Boebert
Plus: The messy Ken Paxton trial
