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Our reporters investigate every significant event in the tech world. We speak to companies, witness events from the ground, and test products so you can get essential first-hand insights on the latest news.

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Fantasy Footballers’ Andy Holloway is a dedicated zero-inbox kinda guy

If you haven’t had your fantasy football draft yet, better get on it.

Terrence O'Brien
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
Robotaxis enter their villain era 

Road Rage is a new short film in production that casts a murderous autonomous car as the bad guy — and taps into everything people already fear about AI on the road.

Rani Molla
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
Nvidia’s DLSS 5, explained

A show-and-tell with Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 neural rendering, launching this week.

Sean Hollister
Get ready for a really busy month of smartphones

Xiaomi, Apple, Huawei, and more are all launching flagship phones this month.

Dominic Preston
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
Welcome to Night Vale cocreator Joseph Fink learned storytelling from Grim Fandango 

His latest book, The Nudge, tells the tale of a man who can’t seem to outrun a mysterious evil.

Terrence O'Brien
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
Robotaxis are real now — so is the pushback

As more robotaxis hit the road, the fight over the rules governing the technology is intensifying.

Rani Molla
W. Kamau Bell has the most practical ‘most indispensable tool’

The comedian, activist, podcast host, author, and dad won’t leave his phone behind.

Terrence O'Brien
It’s Greg Brockman’s OpenAI now

Sam Altman is still CEO, but in day-to-day operations, his second-in-command is running the show.

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
FromSoftware can do anything

The Elden Ring studio continues to chart new paths through games like The Duskbloods.

Andrew Webster
Meta glasses are a workplace menace

Public-facing workers are being filmed, harassed, and creeped out by AI-powered smart glasses.

Mia Sato
Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute

Jensen Huang wants you to think ‘ah, compute as an asset class’ not ‘oh no more GPU-backed loans.’

Elizabeth Lopatto
Trump’s border wall push is back — and it’s destroying national parks and 200-year-old trees

The US has one of the most advanced “smart” surveillance apparatuses in the world. So why does this administration insist on building environmentally destructive, physical walls?

Gaby Del Valle
Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding love fresh vegetables and guitar pedals

The duo recently brought their deep dives on the art of pop music to Netflix.

Terrence O'Brien
I looked inside an AI generated movie, and the best parts were all human

Higgsfield is using Cully Hill Boys to show you how to prompt up your own movie.

Charles Pulliam-Moore