Brazil is fertile ground for authoritarian politics, no matter who wins this election.

My last good day in orbit

The Big Tech Show · Episode

Inside Politics with Hugh Linehan · Episode

Beware the flashy but unproven A.I.-powered advances.

Our friend, colleague and comrade Eoghan Sweeney has been diagnosed with termina… Joseph Galvin needs your support for Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney

Intelligence Squared · Chapter · 7m

Mark Little, tech entrepreneur and journalist, has written a new book 'The Last Good Day on the Internet' in which he charts the initial innocence of the internet and its 'shared playground' feel to t...

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

The Atlantic

YMCA, Thriller and The Undertaker’s WWE theme tune soundtrack an odd morning in ambassador’s residence

As we learn to think more and more highly of the bots, we will learn to think less and less highly of our fellow humans.

Three fourths of Americans oppose data centers. Why?

Democrats want fighters. A former Republican has ideas.

Why the AI revolution is a golden age for polymaths, philosophers, and moderate epistemic despair

The A.I.-fueled debt bubble will likely result in a painful downturn.

A vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai

As global fuel prices surge, electric vehicle adoption is breaking records around the world. These charts tell the story.

WIRED

China is exporting more than A.I. models. It wants its data to influence the world’s chatbots, raising fears that Beijing’s narratives will spread with the technology.

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of AI promises to empower everyone. But it mistakes personal optimization for a shared society, writes Petter Bae Brandtzaeg.

TED Radio Hour · Episode

on wealth vs labor and ownership vs effort

The Verge

The Nation

Dave Jorgenson, cofounder of Local News International, on the post-Post life.

Read Mark Zuckerberg’s piece on our values for building superintelligence for everyone.

For years now, Google has been tweaking its search formula to prop up AI and bury actual links. Now it’s rounding into its final form—and changing the internet forever.

All the layers of neglected dysfunction in our information environment have come together into one deadly, toxic mess for Moroccans in Ceuta, writes Liz Carolan

The Atlantic

The New Yorker

What are we really doing?

Large language models like long words and em-dashes—or do they?

Staring at ourselves on screens, on video and on social media is taking us to a dark place.