From 2017: Frances Gabe, Creator of the Only Self-Cleaning Home, Dies at 101
Equal parts quixotic dreamer and accomplished visionary, Ms. Gabe made the house do its own scrubbing. Read More
Category Technology
OpenAI’s Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop
“The Pentagon and OpenAI are saying to the public, You’re just going to have to trust us. And the public is saying, Well, we don’t.” Read More
S.E.C. Settles Its Case Against Justin Sun, an Investor in the Trumps’ Crypto Coins
The decision to settle the court action is particularly striking because the defendant was accused of a serious violation of securities laws. He denied the charges. Read More
The Pentagon Officially Notifies Anthropic That It Is a ‘Supply Chain Risk’
Anthropic has said it will sue the Defense Department over the designation, which could prevent the start-up from doing business with the U.S. government. Read More
Demand for AI Data Centers Sends Prospectors Hunting for Land and Power
Brian Janous, a former Microsoft executive, and his firm Cloverleaf have become modern-day land men, packaging electricity and land for data centers. Read More
The Smart Home Never Quite Worked. Now It’s Getting an A.I. Reboot.
Amazon and Google think that artificially intelligent assistants like Alexa+ and Gemini will speed up the process of setting up a smart home, but many problems remain unsolved. Read More
A Word to the Wise: Don’t Trust A.I. to File Your Taxes
The world’s smartest technology is no match for the U.S. tax code. Read More
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents? Read More
China Resumes Some Chip Exports, Easing Fears of a Global Crunch
A leading German automotive supplier said it was again allowed to ship semiconductors that Beijing had barred for export. Read More
The Small Company in Europe Caught in the Big Trade War Between the U.S. and China
Nexperia, a computer chip maker based in the Netherlands, was taken over by the Dutch government after pressure from officials in Washington. Read More
