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Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do

The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.

By A.W. Ohlheiser

Stuart Russell wrote the textbook on AI safety. He explains how to keep it from spiraling out of control.

AI doesn’t have to be superintelligent to cause serious havoc.

By Sean Illing

AI that’s smarter than humans? Americans say a firm “no thank you.”

By Sigal Samuel

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The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

Understand how ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E are transforming our world — from text and image generation to how we live and work.

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Google’s free AI isn’t just for search anymore

By Sara Morrison

The chaotic and cinematic MGM casino hack, explained

By Sara Morrison

Has Apple Pay made it too easy to spend money?

By Whizy Kim

How Covid misinformation stayed one step ahead of Facebook

By A.W. Ohlheiser

Apple has an AirPod repair problem

By Pranav Dixit

TikTok’s shopping push left my For You page in shambles

By A.W. Ohlheiser

Elizabeth Warren created a federal agency once. Can she do it again?

By Sara Morrison

The big Elon Musk biography asks all the wrong questions

By Constance Grady

Hey, remember those Apple wonder goggles?

By Peter Kafka

What Google’s trial means for the company — and your web browsing

By Sara Morrison

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What if AI treats humans the way we treat animals?

By Marina Bolotnikova

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What the stories we tell about robots tell us about ourselves

By Constance Grady

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Can AI learn to love — and can we learn to love it? 

By Alissa Wilkinson

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Silicon Valley’s vision for AI? It’s religion, repackaged.

By Sigal Samuel

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What will love and death mean in the age of machine intelligence?

By Tahmima Anam

Don’t upgrade your iPhone until you have to

By Adam Clark Estes

Elon Musk’s strange new feud with a Jewish anti-hate group, explained

By Zack Beauchamp

Google is facing yet another major antitrust lawsuit

By Sara Morrison

Burning Man’s climate protesters have a point

By Adam Clark Estes

Public phone chargers are convenient, but are they also dangerous?

By Sara Morrison

Is the AI boom already over?

By Sara Morrison

America has the world’s safest air travel but sucks so bad at car safety

By Marina Bolotnikova

AI-discovered drugs will be for sale sooner than you think

By Rachel DuRose

Is YouTube tracking your kids again?

By Sara Morrison

Even Elon Musk can’t fully wreck Twitter’s one great superpower

By Peter Kafka

Netflix is just giving DVDs away now

By Adam Clark Estes

San Francisco’s robotaxi experiment is getting out of hand

By Avishay Artsy

What normal Americans — not AI companies — want for AI

By Sigal Samuel

How does Elon Musk get away with it all?

By Constance Grady

The LED light revolution has only just begun

By Umair Irfan

Why in the world are Elon and Zuck planning to punch each other?

By Whizy Kim and Nicole Narea

Is Zoom using your meetings to train its AI?

By Sara Morrison

Why a “room-temperature superconductor” would be a huge deal

By Dylan Matthews

ChatGPT could make bioterrorism horrifyingly easy

By Jonas Sandbrink

The future of cities, according to the experts

By Rani Molla

The creator of Black Mirror is okay with tech. People, on the other hand ...

By Peter Kafka

Why Meta’s move to make its new AI open source is more dangerous than you think

By Kelsey Piper

Workers are mad as hell this summer

By Rani Molla

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