Given the vibe-coding boom, a study recommends a drastic step: open-source software should only be available for a fee.

Sridhar Vembu was responding to a post on X, formerly Twitter, which described the development of a Bhagwad Gita application ...

A Reddit for A.I.” social media platform has taken the internet by storm. But we’re not having the right conversations about it.

People are using generative AI to flood courts with filings, legislatures with constituent letters and publications with ...

Moltbook, a social media site for AI agents, has gone viral. I spent 6 hours peeling through these submolts. I'm still ...

For interest groups and lobbyists, face-to-face time with political decision-makers is the most valuable kind of access there is. As one New Zealand politician once put it (speaking anonymously to ...

While AI coding assistants dramatically lower the barrier to building software, the true shift lies in the move toward "disposable code", ...

In a time of perpetual crisis, more and more mothers are trying to find the solutions that their governments seem unwilling ...

Two researchers advocate for new AI-based measures not because they offer measurement free from error, but rather because they avoid specific problematic forms of error linked to overreliance on ...

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, says more democracy is the best response to AI. He doesn’t sound too confident.

In June, 2025, the Wellcome Trust announced an ambitious £10 million UK project called the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) and claimed it “will unlock a deeper understanding of life, leading to ...

Growing up multiracial in the 1990s, Gabriel "Joey" Merrin regularly encountered demographic forms that forced an impossible choice: Pick one box. Deny the others. "That act of being forced to choose, ...