Technology

Can this little truck solve America’s big EV problem?

How the affordable, bare-bones Slate truck is trying to win over American drivers.

By Ariana Aspuru and Sean Rameswaram

The couples using ChatGPT as their therapist

“She’s conveying this stuff and I’m like, wow, you really think that? And she’s like, well, no, not really.”

By Allie Volpe

We don’t know how the Ebola outbreak started. That’s a problem.

What Ebola and hantavirus reveal about determining the source of an outbreak — and why it matters.

By Shayna Korol

How AI sexbots could destroy the world

Humanity may scroll its way out of existence.

By Eric Levitz

What’s fueling AI companies’ IPO rush

Three leading AI companies are racing to go public this year. It might not be good news for consumers.

By Peter Balonon-Rosen and Sean Rameswaram

How AI could make wars go nuclear

We had a plan to prevent World War III. AI could break it.

By Joshua Keating

AI can replicate human-made art. Here’s why it can never replace it.

We can learn a lot from what the camera did to painting.

By Constance Grady

Americans don’t know how to fight AI. So they’re fighting data centers.

The data center revolt is a symptom of our political failure on AI.

By Marina Bolotnikova

New college grads are doing better than the vibes suggest

Why a college degree is still worth it, even in 2026.

By Bryan Walsh

MAGA’s civil war over immigration is over. Silicon Valley lost.

Trump is threatening to exile hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants.

By Eric Levitz

When AI makes you worse at your job

Your boss thinks AI makes you faster. Do you?

By Anna North

The pope takes on AI

Why the Catholic Church is concerned about Big Tech.

By Christian Paz

How to make the most important choice of your life

You have 80,000 hours in your career. How will you spend them?

By Shayna Korol

How clips ate the internet

Is all content doomed to be clipped now? The Verge’s Mia Sato explains.

By Danielle Hewitt and Sean Rameswaram

The hidden way dictatorships are shaping what AI tells you

Authoritarian states may have accidentally brainwashed ChatGPT.

By Eric Levitz

The 5 most unhinged revelations from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI

The Musk v. OpenAI trial is over. Here are the receipts.

By Sara Herschander

Data centers could actually be good for your hometown

The case for the buildings America loves to hate.

By Eric Levitz

How to fall in love with humanity again

Tech culture has made contempt for humanity feel enlightened. We can do better.

By Sigal Samuel

Inside the fight over America’s data centers

“The ugliest thing I’ve ever seen”: How New Jersey residents feel about a data center in their backyard.

By Astead Herndon

Could you spot an AI-written book?

An author set up an experiment to find out.

By Amina Al-Sadi and Noel King

Are humanoid robots all hype?

AI is making them better — but they’re not going to be doing your chores anytime soon.

By Avishay Artsy and Sean Rameswaram

The old tech that could help stop the next airborne pandemic

Glycol vapors, explained.

By Shayna Korol

Elon Musk could lose his case against OpenAI — and still get what he wants

It’s not about who wins. It’s about the dirty laundry you air along the way.

By Sara Herschander

Why banning kids from AI isn’t the answer

What kids really need in the age of artificial intelligence.

By Anna North

Anthropic owes authors $1.5B for pirating work — but the claims process is a Kafkaesque mess

“Your AI monster ate all our work. Now you’re trying to pay us off with this piece of garbage that doesn’t work.”

By Constance Grady

Some deaf children are hearing again because of a new gene therapy

A medical field that almost died is quietly fixing one disease at a time.

By Bryan Walsh

A major new study found AI outperformed doctors in ER diagnosis — but there’s a catch

An Open AI model posted impressive results in emergency care. But we still need human doctors.

By Dylan Scott

Anthropic just made AI scarier

Why the company’s new AI model is a cybersecurity nightmare.

By Dustin DeSoto and Sean Rameswaram

The Supreme Court will decide when the police can use your phone to track you

Chatrie v. United States asks what limits the Constitution places on the surveillance state in an age of cellphones.

By Ian Millhiser

The simple question that could change your career

Making a difference in the world doesn’t require changing your job.

By Bryan Walsh

The case for AI realism

AI isn’t going to be the end of the world — no matter what this documentary sometimes argues.

By Shayna Korol

OpenAI’s oddly socialist, wildly hypocritical new economic agenda

The AI company released a set of highly progressive policy ideas. There’s just one small problem.

By Eric Levitz

Human bodies aren’t ready to travel to Mars. Space medicine can help.

Protecting astronauts in space — and maybe even Mars — will help transform health on Earth.

By Shayna Korol

The importance of space toilets, explained

Houston, we have a plumbing problem.

By Peter Balonon-Rosen and Sean Rameswaram

What happened when they installed ChatGPT on a nuclear supercomputer

How they’re using AI at the lab that created the atom bomb.

By Joshua Keating

Humanity’s return to the moon is a deeply religious mission

Space barons like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk don’t seem religious. But their quest to colonize outer space is.

By Sigal Samuel

Why people are having such strong reactions to Lindy West’s new memoir

The book has left many readers feeling baffled and disappointed.

By Kelli Wessinger and Noel King

The contradiction at the heart of OpenAI

Can OpenAI serve humanity — and investors?

By Danielle Hewitt and Sean Rameswaram

Courts are finally punishing Big Tech for harming kids. Here’s the catch.

The legal breakthrough that could reshape social media — for better or worse.

By Eric Levitz

Hey Google, stop trying to write my emails!

How AI-generated email creates a synthetic version of you.

By Marina Bolotnikova