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The American Age Is Over

16 September 2026 at 01:00
Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. The American age that followed World War II was bound to end eventually. What’s shocking is how suddenly that moment has arrived. In the past six months, America’s power—long exemplified by the world’s best warfighting equipment and most highly trained military

Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s ‘Surprise and Shine’ Event; the Announcements of the iPhones 18 Pro, AirPods 5, Apple Watches Series 12 and Ultra 4, and the iPhone Duo; and the Dawn of the Ternus, John Ternus Era at Apple

15 September 2026 at 01:00
The Keynote I loved the keynote’s “You want a great opening scene?” opening, which ran through a series of genre-inspired hook-you-from-the-first-shot pretend movie openings. Apple started with a title card that said “The following was shot on iPhone”, but the whole keynote — including the fun fake-movie openings — was

iOS 27 Features: The Ultimate Mega Guide

15 September 2026 at 01:00
When iOS 27 first came out back in June, we started working on a series of in-depth feature guides and how tos that go through all of the updates in Apple's new software. Our ultimate guide aggregates all of our ‌iOS 27‌ coverage, and it is useful for iPhone and

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

12 September 2026 at 01:00
I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life. I’ve written often about these incredible benefits: I believe that AI could cure most major diseases in the next 5–10 years, greatly accelerate economic growth rates, create a

Big Tech Fooled America Once. The Second Time’s Not Going So Well.

10 September 2026 at 01:00
Credit...Brandon Celi OpinionGuest Essay Credit...Brandon Celi Listen · 22:30 min Sept. 10, 2026 The popular uprising against data centers has emerged so suddenly that politicians stumble over their own pitchforks racing to the front of the crowd. Where most industries would be launching into crisis P.R. mode, perhaps even engaging

Un año de trabajo de dos matemáticos españoles frente a 88 horas y 15 millones de OpenAI: “Sin nuestra idea, la IA no lo habría resuelto”

10 September 2026 at 01:00
El matemático Diego Córdoba lleva dos días sin dormir cuando contesta a la llamada de EL PAÍS, el miércoles por la mañana: “Estoy aún en shock, la verdad”, dice, y reconoce que no sabe cómo está cuando se le pregunta. El sábado por la noche recibió una llamada de un

The iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro

9 September 2026 at 01:00
Last year, an unplanned personal hiatus coincided with the time when I should have been reviewing the then-new iPhones 17 and iPhone Air. In my brief note explaining my absence, I wrote: I look forward to getting back to writing very soon. I can feel it: I will be back

Write Things Down

8 September 2026 at 01:00
Listen to this post: Log in to listen It was Merlin Mann and his 43folders website who introduced me to David Allen and Getting Things Done. Getting Things Done, a book which I have gifted multiple people, is first and foremost a philosophy about how to achieve a clear mind.

Write Things Down

8 September 2026 at 01:00
Listen to this post: Log in to listen It was Merlin Mann and his 43folders website who introduced me to David Allen and Getting Things Done. Getting Things Done, a book which I have gifted multiple people, is first and foremost a philosophy about how to achieve a clear mind.

Has the A.I. Job Apocalypse Been Postponed?

7 September 2026 at 01:00
The Financial Page So far, the proliferation of products such as Claude and ChatGPT hasn’t led to mass displacement of workers. But deployment is accelerating and economic pressures are rising. September 7, 2026 Source photograph by Mel Musto / Bloomberg / Getty You’re reading The Financial Page, John Cassidy’s weekly

An Alien Mind

6 September 2026 at 01:00
In mid-2023, within the “RLSlow” research project, we saw the first results that gave us confidence that we will be able to scale the training of reasoning models, unlocking the capability of pretrained models to form their own chains of thought. Szymon and I spent that night at the office,

The Singularity Is Not What It Seems

2 September 2026 at 01:00
One evening in early August, Sam Stowers and several neighbors packed into an apartment near San Francisco’s Alamo Square and pondered the beginning of the end. Stowers and his guests, many of whom work in the AI industry, were gathered to watch a newly released YouTube video in which two

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The Delusions of John Roberts

10 August 2026 at 01:00
Profiles The Chief Justice insists that his Supreme Court isn’t biased even as it keeps making dramatic leaps rightward. August 10, 2026 Today’s Justices are openly fractious. All Roberts can say is “We’re not as much at each other’s throats as you might think.”Illustration by Paul Rogers / Source photograph

Does Silicon Valley dream of Philip K Dick?

8 August 2026 at 01:00
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