Tesla could launch the robotaxis by year’s end, and Wall Street is banking on the incoming president to clear any regulations that stand in the way.

The two major techbro obsessions—crypto and AI—have delivered mostly scams and hype. But this year, they managed to buy themselves a federal government.

Sam Altman and Musk are currently engaged in a bitter, protracted feud over OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company they co-founded in 2015. But they both are bankrolling Donald Trump.

Donald Trump just tapped David Sacks for a White House job.

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.

There is still no community note on Musk’s A.I.-generated image of Kamala Harris.

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have been caught at a new grift, just months after being hit with a settlement payment for a voter intimidation scam.

Multiple pro–Donald Trump accounts are using photos lifted from the profiles of European influencers.

Donald Trump now wants nothing to do with the A.I. images he shared just a few days ago.

Donald Trump cannot cope with Kamala Harris’s crowds.

Musk’s social media platform is promoting content that directly helps Donald Trump.

Michigan Republican Anthony Hudson blamed the terrible A.I.-generated ad on a campaign volunteer.

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

The events of 2023 showed that A.I. doesn’t need to be that good in order to do damage.

The tech industry thought that the legal issues over their shiny new toys were a settled matter. They thought wrong.

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

Screenwriters, actors, authors, and artists are fighting to ensure that human beings are not shunted to the margins of our culture.

Lawmakers agree that the rapid evolution of this technology needs to be addressed—but they’re still getting up to speed on the details.

The president has the power to step in now before A.I. becomes a threat to national security.

Cornell researchers used artificial intelligence to write advocacy emails to state legislators. The responses don’t bode well for democracy in the age of A.I.