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.

Fawn Friends is a befuddling mix of AI companionship, fantasy lore, and social robots. AI Burt Reynolds is also involved.

The cut corners of these Asus, Lenovo, and Acer laptops are glaringly obvious next to the Neo.

OpenAI is juggling public controversies, strategy shifts, and increasing competition.





J.K. Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she will continue using her fortune to harm transgender people.


Judge Lin wrote that ‘punishing Anthropic … is classic illegal First Amendment retaliation.’





The company’s new line of affordable gadgets was supposed to prove Matter’s promise. Instead, it exposed just how far interoperability still has to go.

Apple’s new affordable MacBook should have the Windows world rethinking things.

Ben Affleck’s AI startup, recently purchased by Netflix for around $600 million, has a different approach to gen AI.









Our trust in online images and videos is being eroded by AI, misinformation, and video game clips.

“I am hesitant to foist being public on SpaceX, especially given the long term nature of our mission.”

The law doesn’t say what Sam Altman claims it does.

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.

































