Driven by personal grievances and a misguided sense of their own exceptionalism, tech titans are swerving right and amplifying reactionary MAGA politics.

For decades, Kurzweil has been prophesying the unstoppable rise of AI and its eventual merging with human intelligence.

Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.

The U.S. government is worried about falling behind in the literal A.I. arms race—and Silicon Valley is cashing in with ludicrous promises.

Joseph Weizenbaum’s underrated book “Computer Power and Human Reason” cautioned against confusing people with machines.

X’s chief troll is inciting a “censorship” moral panic in Brazil, undermining the democratically elected government’s efforts to squash far-right extremism.

The cutting-edge products that Big Tech and the Pentagon are developing could be rebuilding an untold number of lives. Instead, they’re being sent to the battlefield to ruin more.

The great replacement theory video that Musk pinned to the top of his feed is sick. And it shows that he’s turning X into a safe space for far-right propaganda.

If these Silicon Valley plutocrats have their way, a swath of Solano County will be transformed into their own nation-state.

He proved this year that he’s not just evil, but deeply stupid, too.

These are the people who made the world worse this year—plus a few who fought the good fight.

Workers once confronted industrialization by taking a hammer to the new machines.

The platform has gone from being a useful resource during a breaking news event to a dangerous respository of lies and fakery.

New evidence that when Amazon comes to town, warehouse wages go down.

The FTC chair’s bold move against her longtime bête noire sends the right message at a vulnerable moment for corporate mergers.

Artificial intelligence once promised to make us healthier and wealthier. Now, we’re faced with either gimmicky chatbots or total annihilation.

In Silicon Valley, drugs are the new gateway to unleashing workers’ potential. The Nazis got there first.

Like his pals Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, Sacks is using his wealth and online clout to unite conservatives and former leftists in a reactionary movement against liberalism.

The Tesla mogul proved his critics wrong—by coming up with a way to wreck the social media company that they never could have expected.

In his journey from hippie sage to global business consultant, the Whole Earth Catalog founder embodied the shifting spirit of Silicon Valley.