Technology

In April, Snapchat’s “My AI” chatbot became available to all Snapchat users, and since then, the app has been rife with privacy breaches and raging partisanship. What’s important to understand about Snapchat is that it’s an…

Dubai has announced the construction of a 3D-printed concrete mosque to accommodate 600 worshippers and cover 2,000 square meters over two floors, with construction planned to begin by the end of year and completed in the first quarter of…

It’s time to acknowledge that Twitter is not improving in any significant way under Elon Musk. Despite the CEO’s alleged commitment to freedom of speech and his flirtation with center-right circles online, the platform’s algorithm routinely…

TikTok announced the platform will be celebrating Earth Day with the removal of “climate change denial videos” without defining “climate change denial.” TikTok announced Wednesday the company will roll out the policy this week with users…

News updates, email notifications, and social media alerts once dominated my life. They were the first things I saw when I woke, and they occupied my days and nights — that is, until a thousand-year-old poem persuaded me to kick my…

For too long, Americans have been preyed upon online. It’s past time to enshrine into law the rights that will protect Americans as they use everyday digital services. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is leading this charge. Other states, no…

SAN FRANCISCO—In a roundtable discussion about the technology’s promise and possible pitfalls, Silicon Valley investors noted Thursday that they remained concerned that AI could leave a shred of humanity intact. “Even as we observe the vast…

If the AI-powered language-learning model ChatGPT has mesmerized or terrified you, then brace yourself. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, this week released a more powerful AI model called GPT-4 and declared the AI bot “the…

Our government is preparing to monitor every word Americans say on the internet—the speech of journalists, politicians, religious organizations, advocacy groups, and even private citizens. Should those conversations conflict with the…

The following is a rush transcript of my interview with Nita Farahany, author of “The Battle for your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.” (To read a transcript of my interview with Tristan Harris of…