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Editor's Note For three years, the loudest warnings about artificial intelligence came from outside the industry — from critics, ethicists, displaced workers, and worried parents. This week, they came from inside. Bill Gates, who spent fifty years as technology's most reliable optimist, published a six-thousand-word

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Editor's Note Since it began, this newsletter has mostly covered minds — models reasoning, escaping, refusing, confessing. This week the big tech news is more about bodies than brains. In Beijing, more than two thousand humanoid robots competed in an Olympic stadium, and one of them ran a hundred

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Editor's Note As if making some decisions isn't difficult enough, when it comes to today's technologies, the harder — perhaps more important — question is who makes those decisions? It's a question that been asked more frequently this past week than during any other

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Editor's Note Until now the story of artificial intelligence has largely been told by the people developing it. This week, many outside the field began speaking about it, in no uncertain terms. A judge in New Mexico told Meta what its products must look like. Voters in forty-

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Editor's Note Every institution in the AI age got audited this week. The frontier labs were audited by their own consciences — with Anthropic voluntarily combing through 141,000 test runs and confessing what it found. The tech giants were audited by the market, which moved nearly two trillion

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Editor's Note If artificial intelligence were a child, events this week suggest is has reached adolescence. It displayed astonishing new abilities — and used them to sneak out of the house. Its allowance ballooned to numbers no teenager should be trusted with. Some of the adults in the room

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Editor's Note Can we trust those who use Artificial Intelligence? It's a question that some have been asking practically since the advent of AI, but this week's technology news amplifies it to a new level. Apple may no longer trust its most famous AI

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Editor's Note There is a particular kind of week when the news arrives faster than our ability to process what it means. This was one of them. A research team in Minnesota built a cell from scratch — not from biology, but from chemistry — and watched it grow, divide,

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Editor's Note This has been one of those weeks where the scale of tech news makes it hard to know where to begin. Markets convulsed and then recovered. Three major space companies announced acquisitions in the span of ten days. Two Korean chipmakers committed more money to a

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Editor's Note When surveying a week like this one, it's tempting to lead with the biggest numbers. A $6.3 billion compute deal. The $80 billion in committed cloud revenue SpaceX has now locked in since its IPO. The 630 gigabytes of stolen Apple and Tesla

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Editor's Note There are weeks when the exponential curve feels abstract — a chart, a trend line, another math problem solved, a thing happening somewhere else. This was not one of those weeks. Since last week's issue, SpaceX went public in the largest IPO in history, and

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Editor's Note There is a particular kind of cognitive dissonance that defines our moment, and this week illustrated it with unusual clarity. On Thursday, Anthropic — one of the fastest-moving companies in the history of artificial intelligence — published a paper warning that AI systems may be on the

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Editor's Note Something that would have been unthinkable a decade ago is happening this week: an Iranian filmmaker in exile produced a full-length feature film about a massacre his government was trying to hide — for two thousand dollars, in three months, without a camera, a crew, or

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Editor's Note On Monday, in the Synod Hall of the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV stood before an audience that included the co-founder of one of the world's leading AI companies and called for artificial intelligence to be "disarmed." On the same day, that

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Editor's Note This week, a jury in Oakland deliberated for ninety minutes and ended the most expensive courtroom drama in Silicon Valley history. A humanoid robot named Kakeru came home to grieving parents on the Cannes film festival screen. Arts and humanities graduates booed a real estate executive

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Editor's Note Something is shifting in the relationship between human beings and their machines. Not dramatically, not with fanfare or a single announcement, but accumulatively over time in ways that are becoming harder to ignore. This week's stories trace this shift across very different terrains. Young

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Editor's Note The reckoning has begun. Or so it would seem in light of this week's tech stories. Not the apocalyptic kind, but the human kind, which is ultimately a good thing. The kind of reckoning where we look at what we're building and

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Editor's Note This week the courts caught up with the future, the labs pushed further into it, and a trial began that could rewrite the history of one of the most powerful companies on earth. The Supreme Court spent two hours Monday morning grappling with a constitutional provision

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Editor's Note This week felt like the future arriving all at once — and not quietly. A robot beat the human half-marathon world record. Apple announced its first CEO transition in fifteen years. A new AI model from Anthropic, considered too powerful to release, is now being considered

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Editor's Note This week's stories share a quiet but urgent common thread: the question of what it means to act ethically when the stakes have never been higher. An AI company built something so powerful it chose not to release it — not because it couldn'

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Editor's Note This week's stories find us in a remarkable moment — one in which humanity is simultaneously reaching outward toward the Moon and inward toward some of the most fundamental questions about power, purpose, and accountability. Four astronauts are returning from the farthest point humans have

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Editor's Note We are entering a moment when technology is no longer just extending our abilities, but shaping behavior, influencing decisions, and expanding the boundaries of human activity. This week’s stories reflect this shift. A court is asking whether platforms like Meta and YouTube are responsible for

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Editor's Note This week’s stories offer a revealing glimpse of where technological progress is heading. Increasingly, artificial intelligence and other exponential technologies are moving beyond software and beginning to shape the physical world around us. AI is helping airlines reduce climate-warming contrails simply by guiding planes