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The “clean energy” mine that could put one of America’s most pristine wilderness areas at risk
A view of the Moose Lake entry point to the Boundary Waters, a federally protected area in northeastern Minnesota. | Anthony Souffle/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images There’s no such a...
The Morning After: Apple’s quest to make AI useful to its users
Apple's WWDC saw the company look to tidy up its existing work and make AI useful rather than throw a thousand eye-catching features at users.
The next AI safety fight may actually be about DNA
AI company CEOs Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) disagree on a lot, like how fast the technology should develop, the best way to regulate it, and...
Google sues Chinese scammers using Gemini AI for fraud
Google sued a Chinese cybercrime network for using its Gemini AI in a 'massive' scam operation.
Trump’s strange flirtation with AI socialism, explained
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, accompanied by President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025, in Washington, DC. | Andrew Harnik/Getty...
Siri won’t be your AI girlfriend
‘Listen, that's not what I'm here for, right?' | Image: Apple Our early testing has already shown that Siri AI knows when to shut up, and that's very much by design. In an interview with Mostly...
Amazon’s Echo Hub gets a customizable new look and Ring’s AI features
Amazon's rolling out a free software update for Echo Hub devices that gives the home screen a much-needed update to the software it launched with in 2024. It had already added Alex Plus AI support,...
Trump (still) has a spy chief problem
Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, during a Bloomberg Television interview outside the White House on January 12, 2026. | Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images This...
Disclosure Day pits aliens against religion. But faith leaders are ready to believe.
Emily Blunt stars in Steven Spielberg’s film Disclosure Day, which imagines how humanity might react to confirmation of alien life. | Courtesy of Amblin Entertainment With his new film Disclosure...
The secrets you shouldn’t keep from your doctor
Let’s be frank: When you go to see your personal doctor or stop at an urgent care for a quick visit, you probably don’t always tell the physician the whole truth and nothing but the truth. According...