Big tech company hype sells generative artificial intelligence (AI) as intelligent, creative, desirable, inevitable, and about to radically reshape the future in many ways.

The average American has three friends, but has demand for 15,” Mark Zuckerberg said earlier this year, suggesting chatbots might pick up the slack. Combined with the company’s efforts to incorporate character-based chatbots and AI avatars into its platforms,

The service disruption in the Azure East US region reveals capacity problems that are happening more often. Enterprises need to rethink their strategies, enforce stricter SLAs, and accept that public clouds are still vulnerable.

An emerging guard of paramilitary activists are using social media and edgy aesthetics to build a new brand of anti-government, Christian nationalist militias.

There are good reasons to believe that the next few years will see the emergence of a new wave of innovative clean technologies. The first cause for optimism is, strangely enough, the OBBB itself, which solidifies American support for certain novel energy technologies preferred by Republicans,

Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “godfather of AI,” fears the technology he helped build could wipe out humanity — and “tech bros” are taking the wrong approach to stop it.

Behind your ChatGPT and Gemini queries, there's a land grab happening to keep up the fevered pace of gen AI's growth. The consequences are significant.

It's no secret that much of social media has become profoundly dysfunctional. Rather than bringing us together into one utopian public square and fostering a healthy exchange of ideas, these platforms too often create filter bubbles or echo chambers.