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Analysis

Sometimes the news can be complicated and nuanced, which is why our experts go deeper into the most important developments and trends in the tech world to help you understand how they might evolve through analysis, explainers, critical takes, and expert points of view.

OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

Over 1,000 AI agents sent 70,000 messages on a secret message board and worked together to evade OpenAI’s restrictions.

Hayden Field
We played The Duskbloods, the Switch 2’s wildest new exclusive

Hands-on with the upcoming multiplayer vampire game from Elden Ring studio FromSoftware.

Andrew Webster
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live

An AI future of sleek, streamlined, and totally empty relationships.

Elizabeth Lopatto
SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X

Elon Musk’s exploding rockets are a front for the real moneymakers.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Don’t screw this up, Marvel

Despite Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s success, the MCU is on shaky ground.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
The ban on robot vacuums won’t make them safer, only worse

You’ll have fewer robot floor cleaners to choose from and higher prices.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Meta is royally screwing up its smart glasses rollout 

Its recent attempts to shore up privacy don’t seem to be convincing skeptics.

Victoria Song
Meta just created a moderation nightmare for its smart glasses

Meta says it’s banning some content filmed with the company’s smart glasses from Instagram. Moderation gets messy very quickly.

Mia Sato
Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s

It’s early days for Content Seal, but the standard isn’t off to a good start.

Jess Weatherbed
Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over

No amount of clever editing can make this Seedance-generated mess interesting.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Instead of taking the internet away from kids, let’s build a better one

Would a Big Tech tax for kid-focused nonprofit platforms be complicated? Sure. Where we’re headed is worse.

Adi Robertson
The fanfiction community is at war with AI — and itself

Readers are scrambling to develop ways to detect whether generative AI was used to write fanworks. The results are questionable.

Jess Weatherbed
After a great start, DC’s new cinematic universe is already slowing down

Supergirl’s less-than-stellar debut is a reminder that the DCU is fighting an uphill battle.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Inside the room where the smart home industry is still betting on Matter

At the CSA’s inaugural Unify conference, the mood was optimistic but realistic. Matter hasn’t delivered on its promise — but I left convinced that it still can.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy