Artificial Intelligence (AI)

How the Cyberspace Administration of China inadvertently made a guide to the country’s homegrown AI revolution.

Gen Z women in China are all in on digital companionship—even setting up dates with real-world versions of their AI boyfriends.

Explosive acceleration, limited dexterity, eyes in the back of its head. What could possibly go wrong?

As Europe’s longstanding alliance with the US falters, its push to become a self-sufficient AI superpower has become more urgent.

I live in Minneapolis. I grew up not far from here, in a suburb of St. Paul; after stints on both coasts, my wife and I settled here to raise our daughters in a freezing state that had always welcomed us warmly. As the ongoing occupation by over 3,000 ICE agents stretches into its third

OpenAI plans to focus on “practical adoption” of AI in 2026, according to a blog post from CFO Sarah Friar. As the company spends a huge amount of money on infrastructure, OpenAI is working on “closing the gap” on what AI can do and how people actually use it. “The opportunity is large and immediate,

Sphere Entertainment, the company behind the eye-catching interactive venue in Las Vegas, has announced its “intent to develop” another Sphere in Maryland that will be located 15 minutes south of Washington, DC. A timeline and exact location haven’t been finalized, but the Maryland Sphere would be the company’s second venue in the US, following plans

Sony’s terrific Bravia 8 II is $900 off for a limited time. Good deals are often hard to come by at the beginning of the year — which is precisely what makes Best Buy’s Winter Sale worth checking out. The ongoing sales event features discounts on everything from big-ticket OLED TVs to smaller electronics, including

Microsoft released its first security update of 2026 for Windows 11 on January 13th. Just four days later, it was forced to release an emergency out-of-band update to fix some pretty serious bugs, the first one introduced. The security patch was stopping some systems from shutting down or hibernating properly, and also preventing some users

It’s relatively rare for a podcast to last 14 years, especially a fiction one. In fact, as far as I can tell, Welcome to Night Vale is the longest continually running fiction podcast out there. (Some will argue it’s actually We’re Alive, but that has taken a few significant breaks between seasons.) The story of