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Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

Instagram’s long-form video update is more than a swipe at YouTube. It’s an attempt to capture the clip economy.

Sold by its trailer as a gag reel, Tom Cruise’s strangest movie may be the most unsettling portrait of our tech and climate moment yet.

In a world of AI Overviews, Wikipedia usage declines. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic.

The deeply uncomfortable film forces audiences to confront what types of stories we tell ourselves about who has economic and political power.

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Human beings struggle with emergency communication. Chatbots can help—if people take them seriously.

From Trump TV to a Shark Tank knockoff, the president’s latest entertainment ventures are a steep decline from his days on The Apprentice.

Seven of 16 planetary vital signs are in their most extreme state ever recorded, and El Niño is here to make matters even worse.

Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.

The metric might not mean much to laypeople, but leap seconds have been a source of contention in the timekeeping community for years. Now, they’re dead.

With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence.