The stories shaping ai

WITH SO MUCH HYPE CIRCULATING ABOUT HOWWITH SO MUCH HYPE CIRCULATING ABOUT HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD—BUT NOT A LOT OF CONCRETE SUCCESSES—HERE ARE SIX LESSONS YOU CAN ACTUALLY USE

Privacy pioneer In March, Meredith Whittaker, president of encrypted messaging app Signal, learned about the Trump Administration’s Signal-gate scandal from a group chat. Slack-jawed, she read the Atl

Driving change MY FIRST WAYMO IS LOCKED IN A STANDOFF with a human rival. I’ve hailed the driverless cab in a tricky triangular parking lot in Austin, and when it pulls in—a hulking white all-electric

What is it? It’s the title of a blog post by Sam Altman (pictured below) in which he describes how AI can become “superintelligent” while remaining safely under human control (www.snipca.com/55178). W

‘‘ I would like to make my own witness statement,” said Christopher Pelkey as he stood before Judge Todd Lang in Arizona’s Maricopa County Superior Court, dressed slightly incongruously in a green hoo

The social becomes political TikTok—Gen Z’s most popular social media platform, famed for zany dance routines and crooning pets and helmed by CEO Shou Zi Chew (above)—has long faced a possible U.S. ba