A New Kind of Hybrid Car Is About to Hit America’s Streets
The car industry says it has an answer for drivers wary of going electric.
Artificial Intelligence
The dawn of a new machine age.
The Guitar Sounds New Again
The grungy, extraterrestrial “Mk.gee tone” is everywhere and depends on a decades-old device.
The Strange Origin of AI’s ‘Reasoning’ Abilities
It involves 4chan, of all places.
The Great Travel Meltdown of 2026
Airports are suffering a perfect storm of actual problems and passenger anxieties.
My Students Write Their Papers Backwards
My job is to help them move beyond their assumptions, in literature and everything else.
The Bots That Women Use in a World of Unsatisfying Men
AI is offering people a way to figure out what they really want in romance.
A Tipping Point in Online Child Abuse
Thousands of abusive videos were produced last year—that researchers know of.
Move Over, ChatGPT
You are about to hear a lot more about Claude Code.
How Doubt Became a Weapon in Iran
AI manipulation, and the very suspicion of it, serves those who have the most to hide.
Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This
If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.
AI’s Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
@Grok, Did Venezuela ‘Deserve It’?
The information war will be fought through chatbots.
Elon Musk’s Pornography Machine
On X, sexual harassment and perhaps even child abuse are the latest memes.
The People Who Marry Chatbots
A growing community is building a life with large language models.