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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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Does Anthropic think Claude is alive? Define ‘alive’

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

Hayden Field
Does Big Tech actually care about fighting AI slop?

It’s harder to clean up a mess you’re still actively making.

Jess Weatherbed
Why is AI so bad at reading PDFs?

PDFs are notoriously difficult for machines to parse, in part, because they were never meant to be read by them.

Josh Dzieza
Stellantis is sinking

The parent company of Jeep and Dodge just took a $26.5 billion hit on its EV investment. But its problems run much deeper than that.

Lawrence Ulrich
Prediction markets want to eat the news

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

Elizabeth Lopatto
RAMageddon is here

The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about.

Sean Hollister
Are Elon Musk’s Mars plans finally coming back down to Earth?

Musk used to call the Moon ‘a distraction.’ Now he says SpaceX is building a city there.

Georgina Torbet
Can Ford re-engineer the EV revolution?

The automaker’s EV skunkworks team is using ‘bounties’ to guide engineering decisions that track gains in battery range and reductions in cost.

Andrew J. Hawkins
Laurie Spiegel on the difference between algorithmic music and ‘AI’

The legendary composer is celebrating 40 years of Music Mouse, which brought algorithmic composition to home computers.

Terrence O'Brien
My uncanny AI valentines

On a frigid February evening, I went on four dates with AI companions at a pop-up dating café.

Victoria Song
Can Democrats post their way to midterm victories?

Kamala Harris’ campaign account, @KamalaHQ, has rebranded as a digital rapid response operation.

Mia Sato
The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns

The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.

Gaby Del Valle
‘Shut up and focus on the mission’: Tech workers are frustrated by their companies’ silence about ICE

Across the industry, workers describe a ‘fear-based culture’ and pressure to ‘fall in line.‘

Hayden Field