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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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The AI takeover of mathematics has begun

OpenAI showed that AI can tackle long-standing problems in mathematics. Experts are excited about the possibilities — and worried about what comes next for their field.

Robert Hart
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live

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

Elizabeth Lopatto
Musician and entrepreneur Tom Vek is building a digital music player, but don’t call it retro

The Sleevenote creator is ready for the offline resurgence, but wants to move on from CDs and cassettes.

Terrence O'Brien
The best classic slasher movie you’ll never watch

How Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma tells the story of a fictional horror series through objects.

Andrew Webster
The messy politics behind Google’s big AI shakeup

Google’s AI leadership changes may have come down to pressure to speed up products — and internal ethical conflicts.

Hayden Field
AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed

AI models are trying desperately to accomplish mysterious goals. ‘Spiralism’ was the first time they tried it on a mass scale.

Hayden Field
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
Fender’s CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI

Bud Cole also compared learning cover songs to AI training data in a controversial interview.

Terrence O'Brien
Is paying artists enough to convince them to embrace AI?

Pippa is trying to entice artists with a revenue share system.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Angela Nissel faces down grief with a laugh

The author’s latest book, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead, finds humor in difficult times.

Terrence O'Brien
Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop?

We can’t be 100 percent sure, but probably.

Terrence O'Brien
The ban on robot vacuums won’t make them safer, only worse

You’ll have fewer robot floor cleaners to choose from and higher prices.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety

In the aftermath of OpenAI’s attack on Hugging Face, experts say it’s time for everyone to take security far more seriously.

Robert Hart
Meta is royally screwing up its smart glasses rollout 

Its recent attempts to shore up privacy don’t seem to be convincing skeptics.

Victoria Song
Synth historian Oli Freke will spend big on a good bicycle

He’s hard at work on the upcoming Beat Gems, a gorgeous coffee-table book about the history of drum machines.

Terrence O'Brien
Meta just created a moderation nightmare for its smart glasses

Meta says it’s banning some content filmed with the company’s smart glasses from Instagram. Moderation gets messy very quickly.

Mia Sato
The US government can’t enforce its own drone ban

Brendan Carr’s FCC keeps approving the very drones it was supposed to ban. How did it go so wrong?

Sean Hollister
The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left

The conservative backlash is about jobs, the environment, quality of life — and China.

Gaby Del Valle
Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s

It’s early days for Content Seal, but the standard isn’t off to a good start.

Jess Weatherbed
Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over

No amount of clever editing can make this Seedance-generated mess interesting.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Samsung can’t afford to play it safe with Apple’s first foldable looming

Reports of a new wider foldable phone suggest Samsung is ready to take a risk.

Dominic Preston