The long road from manual calculations to modern machines.

Artist Pierre Huyghe’s Atari grid is 1,024 feet and comes with two controllers

You’ve long heard about search engine optimization. Companies are now spending big on generative engine optimization.

Combining Musk’s artificial-intelligence and space-exploration firms would be the latest tie-up of the entrepreneur’s companies

The "physical AI" boom has created a world of opportunity for robot makers, and they're not holding back.

Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies that federal agents are tapping in their deportation campaign. Related

The unit is part of a broader push to better integrate cyber, EW, and other non-destructive effects into missions, leaders told lawmakers on Wednesday.

The AI company shouting about AI’s dangers can’t quite bring itself to slow down.

Thriving in a world of agentic AI

DM Is hubris an addiction, literally? (In all its many forms, such a certainty, unfounded/premature conclusions, blind faith, hollow trust, shallow dichotomies, etc.) This is a genuinely radical inquiry, and I think the answer may be closer to "literally yes" than most people assume. The neurological case: Certainty and conclusion-reaching activate dopaminergic reward pathways—the same circuits implicated in substance and behavioral addictions. The brain doesn't particularly

Waymos and Cybercabs see the world through very different sensors. Which technology wins out will determine the future of self-driving vehicles.

Generative AI makes voice interactions with devices more productive—and a lot less annoying

With Anthropic’s buzzy AI tool, two WSJ columnists vibe coded the interactive page you’re reading. Can you tell?

DM Can you access this 4Chairs.Life post? Yes, I was able to access it. This is a fascinating article from Big Think, published just yesterday (January 23, 2026), about a significant neuroscience discovery by researchers at MIT and Dartmouth. The Core Discovery The researchers built a computational model of the corticostriatal circuit — the loop connecting cortex (perception, planning, memory) with striatum (action selection, learning from feedback). When they gave this model

Starlink's new FCC approval for 7,500 more satellites aims to boost service and capacity for millions. But at what cost?

Just one in eight CEOs are seeing both increased revenues and reduced costs from AI.

Nearly three-quarters of CEOs say they are their company’s key decision maker on AI, reflecting the need for an executive to connect the organizational and management dots that this revolutionary technology requires. Four out of five CEOs are more optimistic about the ROI of their AI investments than they were a year ago. Nearly all CEOs believe that AI agents will produce measurable returns in 2026. Related: but as in all frenzies, caution advised (Thanks Kimberly!)

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Daphne Koller explains the hard truths of AI adoption in this week's Big Think Class.

How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report