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...
Can OpenAI’s ‘Master of Disaster’ Fix AI’s Reputation Crisis?
Three months ago, OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman told me his concerns about a mounting public relations crisis facing artificial intelligence...
Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates
Leah Feiger: Let's invest.Zoë Schiffer: They have that going for a while.Leah Feiger: It wasn't full Google, but it—Zoë Schiffer:...
I Cloned Myself With Gemini’s AI Avatar Tool. The Result Was Unnervingly Me
It’s a beautiful, balmy afternoon at Dolores Park in San Francisco, and I’m singing a birthday song to a prehistoric...
SpaceX Listed Grok’s ‘Spicy’ Mode as a Risk in Its IPO Filing
SpaceX warned investors that AI features such as Grok’s “Spicy" and “Unhinged” modes, which allow the chatbot to generate raunchy...
SpaceX Is Spending $2.8 Billion to Buy Gas Turbines for Its AI Data Centers
Elon Musk’s SpaceX committed to spending over $2.8 billion in recent months to buy gas turbines to power data centers...
I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body
I recently gave my OpenClaw a real robot arm to play with. The results just about blew my own neural...
Literary Prizewinners Are Facing AI Allegations. It Feels Like the New Normal
At first, the winners of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize for 2026 enjoyed the envy of their peers. But...
Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026
Much weirder is voice editing in Google Docs, in a new feature called Docs Live. By describing with your voice...
Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Layoffs
Ahead of Meta’s latest round of mass layoffs tomorrow, some employees are deserting offices, abandoning their work, and loading up...
