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The hidden, horrifying world behind all those recruitment scam texts

Those of us receiving the texts aren’t the only victims of these…

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Grok’s nonconsensual porn problem is part of a long, gross legacy

For the past few weeks, Elon Musk’s Grok AI bot has been…

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How the Antichrist infiltrated politics

Trump and the AI-generated picture he posted on his Truth Social platform depicting himself as Jesus Christ. | Mandel Ngan/AFP…

ChatGPT probably isn’t conscious. But what if we’re wrong?

A Hewlett Packard Enterprise AI robot on the show floor during the HPE Discover event on June 16, 2026, in…

The next AI safety fight may actually be about DNA

AI company CEOs Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) disagree on a lot, like how…

Designer babies. Self-improving AI. Are we ready for either?

How do we know when the world has changed? On June 1, a team of scientists published a preprint scientific…

Can this little truck solve America’s big EV problem?

A Slate truck at its design studio in Long Beach, California, on December 19, 2025. | Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles…

The couples using ChatGPT as their therapist

Nick Sadler and his wife had different ideas of what a chill Saturday looked like. He considered the weekend a…

Smartphones broke dating. AI might finish the job.

This photo taken on February 1, 2018, shows an engineer holding a silicon face against the head of a robot…

We don’t know how the Ebola outbreak started. That’s a problem.

Doctors Without Border (MSF) personnel at the Elikya clinic Ebola treatment center is sprayed with disinfectants upon leaving the hospital…

How AI could make wars go nuclear

The Americans were closing in, the situation was getting more dangerous by the minute — and President Xi Jinping was…

What’s fueling AI companies’ IPO rush

Elon Musk speaks during a video interview in Tel Aviv, Israel, on May 18, 2026. | Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty…