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Sometimes the news can be complicated and nuanced, which is why our experts go deeper into the most important developments and trends in the tech world to help you understand how they might evolve through analysis, explainers, critical takes, and expert points of view.

The tech backlash is now in theaters

Between The Social Reckoning, You Can See Everything, Musk, and Artificial, filmmakers are taking Big Tech to task.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
The best feature of Apple’s HomeView might be its simplicity

If Apple’s first smart display finally gets my family to actually use my smart home, I’ll consider it a win.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
We can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’

Tech companies with new AI hardware want you to agree that always-listening, often-recapping devices don’t count as recording.

Victoria Song
Netflix is pivoting away from prestigeNetflix is pivoting away from prestige
Charles Pulliam-Moore
What even is a ‘microdrama’?What even is a ‘microdrama’?
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Muse sure looks a lot like OpenClaw

Meta’s new tool is very cute — and heavily inspired by its open-source predecessor.

Hayden Field
Xbox is barely Xbox anymoreXbox is barely Xbox anymore
Andrew Webster
It’s time for the Mac NeoIt’s time for the Mac Neo
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity

An Anthropic researcher’s resignation letter went viral, and the company released details of four concerning cybersecurity incidents.

Hayden Field
Content creators drop the ball

Recent US Open shenanigans and YouTubers’ disastrous golf ad show a risky relationship between brands and influencers.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Instagram’s AI detection is a mess (again)

Meta is back to adding AI labels on original photos, while not tagging AI images it should.

Jess Weatherbed
OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’

It emphasized stronger guardrails for GPT-6 Astra after the company’s models hacked Hugging Face.

Hayden Field
The robot butler dream doesn’t have legs

After years of living with home robots, I think we’re chasing the wrong machine.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Tim Cook’s Apple: his 10 biggest wins and misses

Cook’s 15-year tenure as Apple CEO was filled with ups and downs.

Emma Roth
OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

Over 1,000 AI agents sent 70,000 messages on a secret message board and worked together to evade OpenAI’s restrictions.

Hayden Field
We played The Duskbloods, the Switch 2’s wildest new exclusive

Hands-on with the upcoming multiplayer vampire game from Elden Ring studio FromSoftware.

Andrew Webster
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live

An AI future of sleek, streamlined, and totally empty relationships.

Elizabeth Lopatto
SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X

Elon Musk’s exploding rockets are a front for the real moneymakers.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Don’t screw this up, Marvel

Despite Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s success, the MCU is on shaky ground.

Charles Pulliam-Moore