Technology

Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Burned $80 Billion — Meta’s Workers Paid a Different Price

Financial losses are reported in quarterly earnings. Human costs are counted differently. Meta is shutting down Horizon Worlds on VR — removed from the Quest store in March, terminated...

Instagram Encrypted Messages Gone: The Importance of Default Settings

The failure of end-to-end encryption on Instagram — and its eventual removal — teaches an important lesson about...

Microsoft Mobilizes Legal and Corporate Resources to Back Anthropic in Battle That Could Define AI’s Future Role in Defense

Microsoft has mobilized its considerable legal and corporate resources to back Anthropic in a legal battle that could...

Musk’s xAI Wins Regulatory Approval for 41-Turbine Plant Amid Southaven Backlash

In a move that has angered local residents, Mississippi regulators have approved Elon Musk’s request to run 41...

OpenAI Takes Government AI Crown as Anthropic Pays the Price for Principled Resistance

There is a brutal logic to the week's events in the AI industry. OpenAI has taken the government...

Creative Preservation: YouTube’s Shorts Production-Time Feature

YouTube has launched a feature that helps users preserve time and mental energy for creative production rather than only consuming content created by others....

Elon Musk Defies UK Ban Threat, Claims “Free Speech” Victory as Grok AI Tops App Charts

Elon Musk has remained defiant in the face of threats from the UK government to ban his social media platform X, interpreting the regulatory...

Nvidia Solves the “Black Box” Problem with Self-Explaining AI Cars

One of the biggest fears surrounding artificial intelligence is the "black box" phenomenon—the idea that even the creators don't know why an AI made...