Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton said that machine learning would outperform radiologists within five years. That was eight years ago. Now, thanks in part to doomers, we’re facing a historic labor shortage.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the U.S. is in “decline” and embraces a cultish tech movement to build “network” societies beyond the reach of nation-states—and he’s got Congress eating out of his hand.

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.

Social media platforms have borne no responsibility for the lies and hate they spread. But starting this week, that may change.

Barrett Brown wanted to use the internet to change the world. He ended up writing a remarkable memoir of his life in prison.

The right says otherwise, and the media goes along, but history proves over and over that population decline is a good thing.

China has already started. This is going to make Putin’s 2016 troll farm look like amateur hour. Can we counter it?

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.

Schools must drastically remake their approach to technology—or continue their ongoing collapse into irrelevance.

A group of newspapers is suing OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of effectively stealing—and profiting from—journalists’ work. This could well be an existential legal fight.

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.

Would he really screw over MAGA investors to cover his gargantuan legal debts? Don’t bet against it.

Has tech plunged culture into an era devoid of originality and surprise?

The hot new thing in proselytizing is an app that allows Christian conservatives to collect data on whole neighborhoods of potential converts.

The president thinks backing the embattled short-form video app will help him and his rich friends.

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

The Republican representative has a troubling history of campaign donations from Big Tech—and it’s spilling into the rest of his work.

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.