Emerging Tech

Don’t let AI steal your heart — or your money.

Don’t let AI steal your heart — or your money.


The tech is improving rapidly. But it won’t remake the economy overnight.


We’re finally making progress toward a universal flu vaccine.


ChatGPT is boring compared to what comes next.
The latest in Emerging Tech


Anthropic’s philosopher, Amanda Askell, reveals what went into the chatbot’s moral education.


Satellites are our only insight into the ongoing conflict — and worth protecting.

Silicon Valley is racing to build a god — without understanding what makes a good one.


What history can teach us about the AI job apocalypse.


Why has Jensen Huang, co-founder of Nvidia, the hardware of the AI boom, buddied up with Trump?


OpenAI still isn’t doing enough to protect young people.


New genetic testing offers us the chance to create superbabies. It can come with unintended consequences.

AI will undoubtedly shape the next 25 years. We just don’t know how yet.


The cutting-edge of neurotech can read your mind. Sort of.


Medical devices in the brain are already making a difference for countless patients.
Are gadgets like Apple Watches and Oura Rings making us any healthier?


And that’s not even Apple’s biggest problem right now


What to know about the tech giant’s growing biometric business.


Rapid changes from AI may be coming far faster than you imagine.


America’s EV charging network is stronger than ever.


Why we should start caring about the right to brain privacy now.


The more agency we give AI assistants, the scarier they get.


The real losers in Trump’s latest crypto project? His biggest supporters.


From battery-powered stoves to health-tracking clothes, what’s on display at the tech industry’s biggest trade show is curiously exciting.


If you’re still skeptical of using AI in your life, try our One Annoying Chore Test.


Microsoft wants an AI companion to follow you around the web. This is only the beginning.


Your AI-powered iPhone comes with a questionable carbon footprint.


New brain stimulation techniques could help scientists understand how meditation changes the mind.


What does Nvidia’s massive stock sell-off tell us about the economy?


Some tech leaders think SB 1047 will kill innovation. It won’t.


Even OpenAI warns that chatting with an AI voice can breed “emotional reliance.”


The bill may be coming due for Silicon Valley’s huge investment in AI.


Humans are still better than robots at finding correct answers online. Good.


Why exponential growth can lead us to underestimate some technologies and overestimate others.


It has been a wild few days for Nvidia stock. But the hype isn’t dying down anytime soon.


AI is being tested against one of the most dangerous natural disasters.

Neuralink has implanted a chip in its first human brain. But it’s pushing a needlessly risky approach, former employees say.


Exclusive: 63 percent of Americans want regulation to actively prevent superintelligent AI, a new poll reveals.


Public opinion about AI can be summed up in two words: Slow. Down.


Companies like OpenAI and Google could make unthinkable profits from successful AI. Will they share the wealth?


AI for the moral enhancement of humans? Sounds tempting. But we shouldn’t be so quick to automate our reasoning.


It’s time for AI regulators to move fast and break things.

Who’s afraid of ChatGPT? Not these workers.


AI chatbots won’t destroy human originality. But they may homogenize our lives and flatten our reality.


We got GPT-4. We could stop there for now, placing a moratorium on new AI systems more powerful than that.