Innovation

Google’s new AI chatbot seems boring. Maybe that’s the point.

By Shirin Ghaffary March 22

The case for slowing down AI

By Sigal Samuel March 20

Can society adjust at the speed of artificial intelligence?

By Kelsey Piper March 18

Your brain may not be private much longer

By Sigal Samuel March 17

Will using AI make Microsoft Word better? We’re going to find out.

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rani Molla March 16

The makers of ChatGPT just released a new AI that can build websites, among other things

By Shirin Ghaffary March 15

Are Elon’s Tweets turning car buyers against Tesla?

By Rani Molla and Peter Kafka March 15

If you’re not using ChatGPT for your writing, you’re probably making a mistake

By Dylan Matthews March 14

Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson predicted the metaverse. What does he see next?

By Peter Kafka March 6

Silicon Valley’s AI frenzy isn’t just another crypto craze

By Shirin Ghaffary March 6

The exciting new AI transforming search — and maybe everything — explained

By Sara Morrison March 4

Elon Musk thinks we’re close to solving AI. That doesn’t make it true.

By Gary Marcus March 3

OpenAI wants to build systems smarter than us

By Kelsey Piper March 1

It doesn’t take that many electric cars to improve public health

By Umair Irfan February 9

Are we racing toward AI catastrophe?

By Kelsey Piper February 9

Google is scrambling to catch up to Bing, of all things

By Sara Morrison February 8

Here comes Bard, Google’s version of ChatGPT

By Shirin Ghaffary February 6

The trials of Elon Musk

By Whizy Kim February 3

The AI boom is here, and so are the lawsuits

By Peter Kafka February 2

The 747 is out. Green airplanes are in.

By Adam Clark Estes February 2

GoodRx made money off your health data. The FTC is making it pay.

By Sara Morrison February 1

Microsoft is beating Google at its own game

By Sara Morrison January 26

What Microsoft gets from betting billions on the maker of ChatGPT

By Sara Morrison January 23

The FAA is struggling. Who can save it?

By Rebecca Heilweil January 19

5 unintended consequences of the EV revolution

By Rebecca Heilweil January 12

Technology

What Meta employees really think about their company’s brutal year

Recode obtained a recording of a Mark Zuckerberg Q&A and internal survey results that show how Meta’s struggles are impacting staff.

By Shirin Ghaffary January 11

Elon Musk’s Starlink is only the beginning

By Rebecca Heilweil January 10

What is generative AI, and why is it suddenly everywhere?

By Rebecca Heilweil January 5

Big Tech’s Big Flops of 2022

By Sara Morrison December 27, 2022

The year EVs outgrew Tesla

By Rebecca Heilweil December 22, 2022

Why you saw more ads on your iPhone in 2022

By Sara Morrison December 22, 2022

Inside the chaos at Washington’s most connected military tech startup

By Jonathan Guyer December 14, 2022

NASA’s latest moon mission is the dawn of a new space age

By Rebecca Heilweil and Ellen Ioanes December 11, 2022

Apple makes it easier to keep your data secret from hackers, cops, and even Apple

By Sara Morrison December 8, 2022

AI is finally good at stuff, and that’s a problem

By Rebecca Heilweil December 7, 2022

AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating

By Kelsey Piper November 28, 2022

Elon Musk has Twitter and Tesla problems

By Rebecca Heilweil November 23, 2022

“Stealing customers’ money is a tale as old as time.”

By Rebecca Heilweil November 17, 2022

Biden’s hugely consequential high-tech export ban on China, explained by an expert

By Michael Bluhm November 5, 2022

Elizabeth Warren wants to keep Big Tech from taking over your car

By Sara Morrison November 3, 2022