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Our reporters investigate every significant event in the tech world. We speak to companies, witness events from the ground, and test products so you can get essential first-hand insights on the latest news.

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Musk v. Altman proved that AI is led by the wrong people

Public opinion of the AI industry is already sinking. A parade of untrustworthy executives makes it look worse.

Hayden Field
Linux devs are fighting the new age-gated internet

The open-source community is looking for a way out of the wave of new laws requiring operating systems to collect users’ ages.

Stevie Bonifield
Why does the Googlebook exist?

Chromebooks solved a real need 15 years ago. I’m not sure Google’s new Googlebook solves anything.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
The future of border security isn’t at the border at all

This year’s Border Security Expo was a victory lap for Trump’s immigration policies. But with border crossings at record lows, what were vendors hawking next?

Gaby Del Valle
Data centers are coming for rural America

And the jobs they promise don’t really exist.

Abigail Bassett
There’s an internet choke point in the Middle East — is the solution in the North Pole?

90% of Europe’s internet passes through the Red Sea. An audacious cable plan in the Arctic could solve that.

Josh Dzieza
Who is the Palantir chore coat for?

The data mining company with extensive defense contracts is making merch to signal which side you’re on.

Mia Sato
A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers

They should be fixed now. Hopefully.

Sean Hollister
Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax

A new wave of writers is porting their publications to rivals like Ghost and Beehiiv.

Emma Roth
Mira Murati’s deposition pulled back the curtain on Sam Altman’s ouster

The former OpenAI CTO had receipts. But they mostly confuse her own story.

Hayden Field
A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower

Thousands of Yarbo robot lawnmowers and blowers have massive security flaws that can let any hacker hijack them and possibly your home network.

Sean Hollister
Inside Dreame’s wild launch event — packed with products no one can buy

Influencers and vaporware collided with some interesting-looking robot vacuums, a laundry robot, and a rocket at Dreame’s US launch event.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Your feed is overrun with clips — this is the cutthroat community of ‘clippers’ behind it

They cut up podcasts, videos, and events into infinite shorter versions. How long can it last?

Mia Sato
Inside the lab where Ford is trying to crack the code on cheap EVs

Unibodies, zonal architecture, shorter wiring harnesses. Ford is resorting to proven manufacturing techniques to get its EV costs down.

Peter Nelson
OpenAI’s president does ‘all the things,’ except answer a question

No detail was too small to argue over for Greg Brockman.

Elizabeth Lopatto
The creator of Roomba is back with a furry robot companion

Colin Angle revealed his latest creation this week: a dog-sized robot ‘Familiar’ designed for human connection, not chores.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
All the evidence revealed so far in Musk v. Altman

Emails going as far back as 2015 give a glimpse into the foundations of OpenAI and the early tensions at the company.

Hayden Field and Adi Robertson
Christian content creators are outsourcing AI slop to gig workers on Fiverr

Demand for AI-generated Bible content is high.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
With Saros, Housemarque makes a case for doing next-gen games differently

‘Realism is not interesting to pursue,’ and other lessons from the PlayStation studio.

Joshua Rivera
Elon Musk’s worst enemy in court is Elon Musk

It’s dangerous to tell a courtroom ‘I don’t lose my temper.’

Elizabeth Lopatto
Larry’s risky business

Oracle’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble?

Elizabeth Lopatto
The plan to quietly kill Coyote v. Acme blew up in David Zaslav’s face

Swift public outcry gave the movie a chance to speak for itself.

Charles Pulliam-Moore