Nearly half of Americans say they use AI to find information and generate ideas. It’s not hard to see why. As social media devolves into…
Category: Primers
I Spent a Week Recording Myself Doing Chores for Money. Who's the Robot Now?
I am no longer a mere human being. I am a conduit of reality, a medium of messages. I hold a knife in my hand…
AI Is Taking Over the Most Cursed Job in the World
She introduced herself as Eve, but Ben knew right away that the voice on the other end of the line was a bot. Eve knew…
Quiz: Will AI Destroy Your Career?
This spring, a team of top academic and think tank researchers tried to forecast AI’s effects on the economy between now and 2030. They surveyed…
AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here’s Exactly How That Happened
“Hi, my name is Peter, and I’m a Claudeholic.” It was August 2025 and Peter Steinberger was addressing a meetup in London called Claude Code…
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and…
The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race
“Nation state issues are very serious and very real, but criminal actors still make up the vast majority of incidents that organizations deal with and…
These Robots Are Making Meals for a Nonprofit in San Francisco’s Tenderloin
These potato-salad-slinging AI chefs aren’t taking anyone’s jobs. Not yet, anyway. They’re just here as volunteers. Project Open Hand, a nonprofit founded in 1985 by…
Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search
It’s been 17 years since I sat in on the iconic weekly search quality meeting in the Ouagadougou conference room at Google’s Mountain View campus.…
The Gulf’s AI Boom Has an Undersea Cable Problem
The Gulf’s AI ambitions depend on something surprisingly fragile: a handful of undersea cables running through some of the world’s most volatile waterways. Countries like…