Trump orders government to fight state AI laws

Rivian debuts custom self-driving chip

Disney making $1 billion investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI video generator

We're all really mysterious to ourselves ft. Ling Ling Huang

US startup seeks to reclaim Twitter trademarks 'abandoned' by Musk’s X

Being good at reading cultural currents doesn't make you good at TikTok clout games.

An oral history of the great migration to Guangdong

Trump launches $1m 'gold card' immigration visas

“I thought about the friend who had passed away often... his methodical erasure felt deliberate, like quiet resistance.”

Martin Parr and the art of the vaguely plausible (2024)

The official Model Context Protocol explainer

Watch the teaser for A24’s The Drama

“Books are inefficient, and the internet is training us to expect optimized experiences.”

Luigi Mangione had a Native Deodorant on him

Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic Author, Dies at 55

Alone in Self-Driving Cars: How Convenience Dissolves Consensus

Becoming Illegible

Starlink Mobile?

Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill

A newly proposed explanation for the slipperiness of ice has revived a centuries-long debate

Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages

Coordinated online attack sought to suggest Taylor Swift promoted Nazi ideas, research finds

New York City ties its record for longest stretch without a homicide

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font

Miami elects first Democrat mayor in almost three decades

OpenAI poaches CEO of Slack

404 Media is making a zine

“Stripped of the emotional context, Kazumi Totaka’s theme for Wii Sports could be mistaken for just background music.”

Trump gives Zelensky ‘days’ to respond to peace proposal

Inside the PSL Scale: The Looksmaxxer Rating System That All the Teenagers Are Referencing

Letterboxd Video Store Sets Launch Date

“We will exit having increased shareholder value.”

Inside Wall Street's underground drug culture ❄️

Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far

Lithuania declares state of emergency over smuggler balloons from Belarus

Where are you supposed to go if you don’t care about growth?

Farcaster is shifting its focus from social networking to on-chain wallets after five years as a blockchain-based social platform

Anderson Cooper will stay at CNN

Information becomes malleable