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Our reporters investigate every significant event in the tech world. We speak to companies, witness events from the ground, and test products so you can get essential first-hand insights on the latest news.

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How the experts figure out what’s real in the age of deepfakes

Our trust in online images and videos is being eroded by AI, misinformation, and video game clips.

Jess Weatherbed
Why is SpaceX going public?

“I am hesitant to foist being public on SpaceX, especially given the long term nature of our mission.”

Elizabeth Lopatto
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Xiaomi’s EV hypercar sure is shiny.

You may never be able to drive the Vision GT concept — except when it arrives in Gran Turismo 7 — and there’s nothing to prove the model at Xiaomi’s MWC booth is even a functioning EV. But hey, you can’t say it doesn’t look the part.

Photo of Xiaomi Vision GT on the booth at MWC 2026, from the front
Photo of Xiaomi Vision GT on the booth at MWC 2026, from the rear left
Photo of Xiaomi Vision GT on the booth at MWC 2026, from the side
Photo of Xiaomi Vision GT on the booth at MWC 2026, showing the Halo tail light
Photo of Xiaomi Vision GT on the booth at MWC 2026, from the rear
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Investigating the 61-pound machine that eats plastic and spits out bricks

A review of the Clear Drop Soft Plastic Compactor — and what happens afterward.

Sean Hollister and Justine Calma
How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance

The law doesn’t say what Sam Altman claims it does.

Hayden Field
Oh great, here comes 6G

We could be in for some wild stuff come 2030. But is this the 5G hype industrial complex all over again?

Allison Johnson
We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots

AI companies could stand together to draw red lines on military AI — why aren’t they?

Hayden Field
Jeffrey Epstein saw promise in Bitcoin — and its far-right supporters

Epstein may not have fully understood crypto, but he helped shape its culture anyway.

David Morris
Does Anthropic think Claude is alive? Define ‘alive’

Anthropic calls its chatbot ‘a new kind of entity’ that might be conscious — and it’s opening a huge can of worms.

Hayden Field
Does Big Tech actually care about fighting AI slop?

It’s harder to clean up a mess you’re still actively making.

Jess Weatherbed
Why is AI so bad at reading PDFs?

PDFs are notoriously difficult for machines to parse, in part, because they were never meant to be read by them.

Josh Dzieza
Stellantis is sinking

The parent company of Jeep and Dodge just took a $26.5 billion hit on its EV investment. But its problems run much deeper than that.

Lawrence Ulrich
Prediction markets want to eat the news

Regulators noticed Polymarket and Kalshi rake in cash on sports bets. So now prediction markets are cosplaying as the future of news.

Elizabeth Lopatto
RAMageddon is here

The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about.

Sean Hollister
Are Elon Musk’s Mars plans finally coming back down to Earth?

Musk used to call the Moon ‘a distraction.’ Now he says SpaceX is building a city there.

Georgina Torbet
Can Ford re-engineer the EV revolution?

The automaker’s EV skunkworks team is using ‘bounties’ to guide engineering decisions that track gains in battery range and reductions in cost.

Andrew J. Hawkins
Laurie Spiegel on the difference between algorithmic music and ‘AI’

The legendary composer is celebrating 40 years of Music Mouse, which brought algorithmic composition to home computers.

Terrence O'Brien