This winter, OpenAI hit a comms rock bottom. Will its acquisition of the cult favorite show TBPN be enough to turn it around?

Is OpenAI’s chief futurist prepping for a major breakthrough or just another hype cycle?

From the mad scientists to the megadonors, a dispatch on the money, power, and influence of technology.

xAI filed its own lawsuit the same day, accusing St. Clair, the mother of one of Musk’s 14 known children, of violating its terms of service.

AI safety advocates are hoping an unlikely ally can provide a rallying cry for guardrails and regulation

What do conservatives like JD Vance and tech executives like Elon Musk have in common? They, like other pronatalists, want to “save civilization” by having more American babies. But it wasn’t that lon...

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A new field of science claims to be able to predict aesthetic traits, intelligence, and even moral character in embryos. Is this the next step in human evolution or something more dangerous?

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

A newsletter about wealth, technology, and power. Click to read A Billion to One, by Julia Black, a Substack publication.

Between homeschool provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill and Trump’s attempts to gut the Department of Education, teaching kids looks different now. Silicon Valley’s answer? Microschools.

Our new reporters will report on the emerging rules, institutions, norms, people and narratives shaping our technology and society.

This brief examines Medicaid’s pregnancy and postpartum coverage and its support for strengthening and improving maternal health outcomes.

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The latest Pew Research report on news content creators paints a damning picture of our skewed information ecosystem

With the success of ChatGPT, Altman has turned into a household name. And he's just getting started.