How technology changes work and everyday life.
Follow the technologies reshaping jobs, ownership, privacy and daily routines. We examine what new tools make possible, who controls them and how their consequences reach beyond the launch announcement.
More than 11,000 rural telecom sites depend on generators, exposing a basic constraint on digital inclusion: expanding the internet still requires solving the electricity problem underneath it.
Demand for memory used in artificial-intelligence infrastructure is pushing manufacturers away from sub-$100 phones, shifting part of the cost of the AI boom onto consumers who may never use an AI model.
From managing your inbox to sorting priorities and making better use of your time, these five prompts can turn an AI assistant into a practical daily organizer.
Artificial intelligence could push U.S. economic output from just over $30 trillion to $44 trillion by 2030 under a set of aggressive assumptions modeled internally by Anthropic. Reuters reporter David Lawder reported Saturday that Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark presented the estimate at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok while also warning policymakers that their window to establish effective AI safeguards may be measured in years.
The emirate is recruiting Chinese technology companies, connecting foreign startups with capital and customers, and positioning itself between markets that are becoming harder to connect directly.
The government wants AI agents throughout public services, but it is keeping decisions about people’s livelihoods in human hands.
Apple now requires developers to prevent and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery, shifting more responsibility to the companies building and distributing AI tools.
The gender gap in whether Americans use AI chatbots has effectively disappeared. A new Pew Research Center analysis found that men and women are now equally likely to say they use tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini or Copilot, a significant change from 2024, when men were 11 percentage points more likely to report using them. But equal adoption has not produced equal confidence: men are still more likely to use chatbots daily, with 27% saying they do so compared with 20% of women. Pasted text
IonQ is using a $1.3 billion deal to build out the security side of its quantum-computing strategy.
The Air Force is buying commercial weather-balloon data as AI forecasting becomes a larger government capability.
Newly unsealed filings say thousands of users, including teens, got a version of TikTok’s feed-reset tool that changed nothing.
Amazon is moving deeper into personal AI with two new Bee devices designed to listen to conversations, turn them into summaries and reminders, and connect what people say to other parts of their digital lives. The $74.99 Bee Frontier can be worn on the wrist or clipped to clothing, while the upcoming $99.99 Bee Eclipse attaches magnetically to a smartphone. Both process conversations in real time and can generate notes, action items and other personalized insights.
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