Streaming upended the economics of music. Now musicians are grappling with how their sounds and lyrics may be ripped off by AI.

A whistleblower alerted the FTC about the "reverse-acquihire" of Covariant AI, a cutting-edge startup. A year later, Amazon has rapidly developed robots with human-like reasoning.

People are turning to AI for answers. Some “gurus” are taking advantage.

The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.

Past tech waves, from ridesharing to crypto, have had solid identities and cultures, even if embarrassing ones. Does AI have one?

Past tech waves, from ridesharing to crypto, have had solid identities and cultures, even if embarrassing ones. Does AI have one?

A weekend among union organizers offered a reminder that clarity and courage still exists on the left — even as the ground shifts beneath workers and their defenders.

A researcher says that we should focus not just on AI-related job loss or LLM models--but on the consolidation of market power between tech firms building AI and the government

Employee resignations from AI coding startup Vercel may signal a changing tide in the tech industry's attitude towards the war in Gaza

Employee resignations from AI coding startup Vercel may signal a changing tide in the tech industry's attitude towards the war in Gaza

Jena Wuu pioneered safety programs at Uber and media literacy initiatives at Meta. Today, she's changing things from the outside, and finding a voice of her own.

Last week Larry Ellison ranked as the richest man in the world. He may be shaping the information and media landscape for years to come.

With punchy videos about corporate malfeasance, unaccountable billionaires and tech companies that act with impunity, this company has carved out a niche doing what mainstream media won't

Google doesn't want you to think AI uses up much energy

Google doesn't want you to think AI uses up much energy

In the months leading up to NYC's primary mayoral election, people could be seen wearing "Hot Girls for Zohran" shirts. What does that movement say about the future of progressive campaigning?

Advanced artificial intelligence will change everything, we are told. Do we get a say?

My dad was a soldier, a traitor, and a refugee. What would we find when we returned to the country he fled?

An ex-big tech researcher worked deep in the "information retrieval" space. Now he wants to educate the public on the true capabilities and limitations of AI.

ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini all seem like magic. But who are the people and rare minerals behind it?

Waterford native William Fitzgerald on quitting a career in tech to fight for workers’ rights

Alistair Kitchen wrote accounts of the student protests at Columbia. He just found out that some of his readers were the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.

A former software engineer at Microsoft was fired for organizing a candlelight vigil. Here's what he thinks about how incentives now need to change.

A former software engineer at Microsoft was fired for organizing a candlelight vigil. Here's what he thinks about how incentives now need to change.

An Alabama woman named Lilly Ledbetter fought for equal pay all the way up to the Supreme Court. But the quest to make a movie about her life wasn't easy.

He says we need community-based software solutions rather than monopolistic companies with centralized "operating systems"

A series of stories this week illuminate the potential for AI to "hallucinate," deceive, conceal, and manipulate.

The lawyers who take on these cases are people, too. Who are they, and how does their behavior ripple out to the rest of us?

Wrongful death lawsuit says former compliance employee's suicide was "unavoidable" because of Boeing's tactics

They know how the sausage is made. Or...the cultiness is real.