Analysis
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.

Anthropic calls its chatbot ‘a new kind of entity’ that might be conscious — and it’s opening a huge can of worms.



Regulators noticed Polymarket and Kalshi rake in cash on sports bets. So now prediction markets are cosplaying as the future of news.
















The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

Things got even weirder on Moltbook, the viral Reddit-style platform, over the weekend.



Doxxing is not a good reason to have faceless police.

It’s still over a year off, and might not even happen, but a Sony and TCL partnership has wide-spanning implications.

The governor’s call to film ICE is part of an attempt to protect states’ rights — but not like that.

New US dietary guidelines promote more protein and beef tallow, potentially moving Americans further away from a low-carbon diet.

They’re putting up a united front against AI newcomers.

Trump wants Venezuela’s oil, Greenland’s minerals, and above all — control.

Sexualized AI images violate consent and boundaries, but legal consequences can be elusive.

Something has gone horribly wrong when your portable battery has a screensaver.



Coming into force this year: AI regulations galore, a teen social media lockdown, and “Taylor Swift” laws.

Political violence has become illegible, and increasingly, politics and language have too.
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