Use our new search tool to see which authors have been used to train the machines.

Whether McCarthy wins or loses is irrelevant.

Stephen King, Zadie Smith, and Michael Pollan are among thousands of writers whose copyrighted works are being used to train large language models.

There’s more than one way to sink a social network.

Apple has just unveiled the latest all-singing, all-dancing iteration of its handset, but perhaps you should resist the hype

With a landmark antitrust trial under way, a giant of the modern web is buckling under its own weight.

Nobel-winning authors, Dungeons and Dragons, Christian literature, and erotica all serve as datapoints for the machine.

One tweet says it all.

The Adderall shortage exposed a troubling gap in how doctors care for the disorder.

Elon Musk is no pro-speech absolutist. He reportedly fires Tesla employees who disagree with him.

New York becomes the first state in the country to pass historic legislation that would make it easier to fix your things.

The police officers who fatally beat Tyre Nichols must have known their actions were being recorded, but that hardly seemed to deter them.

It’s time to start ruthlessly deleting your pics.

In Avatar, the fictional language Na’vi is built on a painstakingly detailed world.

How would you feel if millions of people watched your childhood tantrums?

High-profile lawsuits against Google and Amazon have revealed Silicon Valley’s vise grip on our lives.

Apple’s latest product will insulate users from a burning world.

Advocates will once again be granted a DMCA exception to make accessible versions of texts. They argue that it's far past time to make it permanent.

Surveillance isn’t just imposed on people: Many of us buy into it willingly.

The company thinks it’s an innovator. In fact, it’s an imitator—and not the best one, either.

An Arizona law seeks to solve the problem of police misconduct by preventing anyone from documenting it.

Now that the mogul has swung Twitter to the right, conservatives no longer believe that social-media policies violate the First Amendment.

A Starbucks in Buffalo is the coffee giant's first corporate-owned store in the U.S. to officially unionize.

Why does every store suddenly look the same?

The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.

The billionaire has described his grandfather as a risk-taking adventurer. A closer read of history reveals something much darker.

Each viewing of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated masterpiece is a gift.

The tech industry is designed for people like Sam Bankman-Fried.

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"Tank man" has become something of a litmus test for shitty technology.

Just because one company is firing employees by the thousands doesn’t mean that others should too.

Musk, a self-styled "free speech absolutist," has banned an entirely new category of speech. That he hasn't gotten more blowback speaks to both how tired people are of seeing him and his antics take...

The history of Fox News shows that the network and its issues are larger than any one anchor.

A one-hit wonder is never enough.

The much-maligned seasoning could be the secret to eating less salt.

How $100 billion helped families, changed no votes, and is about to disappear

This bizarre episode in social-media history proves that it’s well past time for meaningful tech oversight.

Clinics offering debunked cancer treatments are still allowed to advertise, despite the company’s stated efforts to control medical misinformation.

How “coolhunters” helped make YouTube into an internet sensation before the algorithms took over.

#PigeonTok is rebranding the unloved birds as pets, not pests.

Everywhere needs to be prepared for everything.

Large language models make things up, but the worse problem may be in how they present those falsehoods.

Sam Altman’s weekend of shock and drama began a year ago, with the release of ChatGPT.

Community moderators say the social network is being exploited for political gain.

A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible

Apple has unveiled its vision for a world beyond the iPhone. Are things any different?

She was one of millions left virtually defenseless by China’s sudden abandonment of its failing zero-COVID policy.

Generative AI programs like ChatGPT threaten to revolutionize how disinformation spreads online.

For the tech world’s most attention-grabbing man, performance comes before substance.

Although a full collapse is unlikely, a different kind of death is possible.

AI-assisted internet posting is already in a race to the bottom.

Behind all the Web3 bluster is just “hollow abstraction.”

The internet’s file format has been diagnosed as “cringe,” but there are other threats to its existence.

Podcast deals with the Obamas, Kim Kardashian, and Harry and Meghan made news and noise for Spotify. But many of its star partners haven't produced any content.

Once upon a time, Apple’s new-device announcements were magic. Then everyone bought an iPhone.

Mozilla’s privacy-heavy browser is flatlining. What it does next is crucial for the future of the web.

The fear that overtook us that day in 1988 was unfamiliar to most Americans. Now all too many know how it feels.