I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different
…Back in October 2018, about four years before launching ChatGPT, OpenAI created Dactyl, a robotic hand that later used AI to solve a Rubik’s Cube. The company took an off-the…
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MAGA Indians Went All In on Trump. Many Right-Wingers Can’t Stand Them
…The mob he still seeks to please—he recently posted racist AI slop on X targeting Somali people and mocking diversity—is turning on him, as he is told by users to…
Alex Vindman Survived Trump’s Retaliation Machine. Now He’s Running for Senate
…She gave this administration a pass, eight times voted in support of this administration getting a free pass with no strategy, deeply misprioritized with regards to what this administration should be working…
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
I work as an AI trainer. I assess whether a chatbot’s tone is natural or flat, affected or annoying. I identify patterns in pictures of furniture; search the internet for group…
Meet the Gods of AI Warfare
…In January 2026, the second Trump administration announced its new military AI strategy focused on becoming an “‘AI-First’ warfighting force,” eager to enlist and accelerate AI agents for campaign planning, kill…
The New Era of Militia Influencers
…It's extremely aesthetic, which also would make sense for a recruitment strategy based on the internet. It needs to be grippy,” Calum Farley, a research analyst at the SPLC’s Intelligence…
The Steam Controller Will Be Great—but Only When Valve’s Steam Machine Arrives
…Except both of those are delayed, largely because the AI bubble is sucking up RAM, GPUs, and CPUs with the gravitational pull of a black hole. At the time of writing, neither…
A Curated Guide to Gifts for Bird Lovers
…There's access to AI identification (which I found to be just OK), livestreaming, and Hibird's “Dr. Bird” ChatGPT-like help feature, which allows you to ask bird-related questions. (I…
Chris Hayes Has Some Advice for Keeping Up With the News
…to AI-generated Department of War propaganda. We had to talk about it—along with Hayes’ views on the uneasy alliance between Silicon Valley and Washington, DC, his social media strategy, and…
Trump’s Tech Posse in China, Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman, and Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories
…You have the chips battle, you have all of these different AI strategy machinations. But what's really, really interesting to me as well is that I'm very much getting in…