Will you help keep Vox free? Vox's journalism is free, so that everyone can understand our world. Reader support helps us do that. Will you give today?

Technology

Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us.

Plagiarism doesn’t need AI to thrive online

A YouTuber’s deep dive on plagiarism tries to make viewers care when creators steal content.

By A.W. Ohlheiser

Qubit by qubit, the quantum computers of tomorrow are coming into being

The quantum computing industry has a road map to the future — but can it reach its destination?

By Bryan Walsh

Local police should not be your go-to source for iPhone safety news

By A.W. Ohlheiser November 29

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.

View All Stories

The 2023 Future Perfect 50

Katja Grace wants you to stop thinking of AI as an arms race

By Sigal Samuel November 29

The 2023 Future Perfect 50

Paul Christiano and Beth Barnes are trying to make advanced AI honest, and safe

By Dylan Matthews November 29

The 2023 Future Perfect 50

Priya Donti is harnessing AI to fight climate change

By Oshan Jarow November 29

The 2023 Future Perfect 50

OpenAI’s Jan Leike is trying to ensure superintelligent AI remains on our side

By Kelsey Piper November 29

The 2023 Future Perfect 50

Yoshua Bengio helped invent deep learning. Now he’s trying to make it safe.

By Kelsey Piper November 29

The 2023 Future Perfect 50

Meredith Whittaker wants to keep your digital conversations private

By Sigal Samuel November 29

The 2023 Future Perfect 50

Azeem Azhar is drawing a road map to a better future

By Bryan Walsh November 29

The 2023 Future Perfect 50

Alec Stapp and Caleb Watney have a plan for national progress

By Bryan Walsh November 29

The 2023 Future Perfect 50

Jerry Chow wants to make quantum computers you can actually count on

By Bryan Walsh November 29

Elon Musk’s attempt to silence his critics will be heard by one of America’s worst judges

By Ian Millhiser November 28

The militarized AI risk that’s bigger than “killer robots”

By Jeffrey Lewis November 28

Want to help animals? Here’s where to donate your money.

By Sigal Samuel and Kenny Torrella November 24

Why it’s important to remember that AI isn’t human

By Raphaël Millière and Charles Rathkopf November 23

What to know about OpenAI’s failed coup

By Sara Morrison and Peter Kafka November 22

OpenAI’s board may have been right to fire Sam Altman — and to rehire him, too

By Sigal Samuel November 22

The race to optimize grief

By Mihika Agarwal November 21

The controversy over TikTok and Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America,” explained

By A.W. Ohlheiser and Li Zhou November 17

Your phone is the key to your digital life. Make sure you know what to do if you lose it.

By Sara Morrison November 17

Is the green texting bubble about to burst?

By Sara Morrison November 17

The secrets Google spilled in court

By Sara Morrison November 16

The best place for product reviews is … Reddit?

By Adam Clark Estes November 16

The new Meta whistleblower adds to an uneven year for online safety laws

By Sara Morrison November 9

What happened to Airbnb?

By Whizy Kim November 8

Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial pulled back the curtain on crypto

By Whizy Kim November 3

The Supreme Court seems stumped by two cases about free speech online

By Ian Millhiser October 31

President Biden’s new plan to regulate AI

By Sara Morrison October 31

Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts

By David Zipper October 31

Google is the default search engine. The big antitrust trial finally revealed how much that costs the company.

By Sara Morrison October 30

Why some Palestinians believe social media companies are suppressing their posts

By A.W. Ohlheiser October 29

The Supreme Court must decide if it wants to own Twitter

By Ian Millhiser October 27

Elon Musk didn’t kill Twitter

By Peter Kafka October 25

Why I let an AI chatbot train on my book

By Bryan Walsh October 25

Why Apple’s weather app is so bad

By Alex Abad-Santos October 25

Don’t blame social media for the fog of war

By Peter Kafka October 25

Net neutrality is back, but it’s not what you think

By Sara Morrison October 19

Don’t believe everything you see and hear about Israel and Palestine

By A.W. Ohlheiser October 18

How AI will shape our children’s future

By Kelsey Piper October 18

Elon Musk’s Israel disinformation investigation, explained

By A.W. Ohlheiser October 17