Big Tech Momentum Holds at Year End With Meta Buying Manus
Big Tech is closing the year with continued momentum as companies push artificial intelligence deeper into products, infrastructure…
2025, the year we took the red pill
A quarter of a century ago, the blockbuster action film The Matrix presented its messiah-like protagonist, Neo (played…
Trump enlists 5 allies to counter China on rare earths and tech – POLITICO
Beijing has wielded its dominance of the sector through export restrictions intended to hit back against the Trump administration’s aggressive…
A New Mental Health Challenge: AI – Jonathan Gibson
When Don Grant, a California-based psychologist and fellow at the American Psychological Association, told a young patient to…
EU hits social media firm X with €120m fine, risking a clash with Donald Trump – The Journal
EU hits social media firm X with €120m fine, risking a clash with Donald Trump The Journal EU fines…
AI bailouts are an inadequate response to economic crisis
This week, journalist Derek Thompson posted two contrasting graphs about the nature of the economy right now. On…
Opinion | Behind AI Hype, Climate Consequences
What started as rivulets of hype, hope, and alarm over artificial intelligence have combined into a tsunami-level wave…
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout
A perennial characteristic of Silicon Valley startup companies is that they lose a lot of money, at least…
Researchers Just Revealed 4 Big Microsoft Teams Vulnerabilities
Staying Safe at Work Granted, these types of flaws are concerning even when they have been fixed. The…
Big Tech’s AI Spend Creates ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’: Davidson Kempner CIO
The race to dominate artificial intelligence has turned into an expensive competition that traps Big Tech companies into…
How to Save the Internet From “Enshittification”
The activist and writer Cory Doctorow spoke to Jacobin about the steady decline of the “enshittified” internet and…
ChatGPT parental controls don’t mean kids need AI companions
The number of kids getting hurt by AI-powered chatbots is hard to know, but it’s not zero. Yet,…