David Pierce

This fun story from The Atlantic is about President Trump’s love of phone calls, and the risks that entails: impersonation, hacking, and much more. But as soon as I read an advisor saying that “he is not walking around with a run-of-the-mill iPhone off the shelf,” I immediately had one thousand more questions. I now need to go find answers.

I think education is a perfect microcosm of the whole AI debate. There are some interesting and cool things to do with AI in the classroom! It might also be rotting kids’ brains! But all the responses 404 Media compiled from educators make one thing particularly clear: technology is changing really fast, and we haven’t had nearly enough time to figure out how to react. I really feel for these teachers.

Sahil Lavingia, the creator of Gumroad and one of the employees turned loose inside of the federal government, published a diary of his 55 days at DOGE. Some interesting details in here on how DOGE actually works, and what Lavingia found he could help improve. Oh, and the interview that might have gotten Lavingia canned? It’s mostly about how impressed he was with how well the federal government works.

Sure, they tell you to eat rocks and put glue on your pizza, but Google says AI Overviews are a smash, and it’s expanding the feature to a bunch of new countries and languages. They’re now available in more than 200 countries and more than 40 languages, Google says — and they’re starting to appear on more and more queries, too.