AI agents could change your life — if they don’t ruin it first
Some smart people think we’re witnessing another ChatGPT moment. This time, folks aren’t flipping out over an iPhone app that ...
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What podcasts do to our brains
This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, ...
Here’s a glimmer of hope about AI and jobs
The most recent jobs numbers paint a pretty grim picture of the labor market and the apparent havoc AI is ...
ChatGPT’s new mission is to fix the broken web
At least twice a year, I’ll download a new browser, open it up, and see if the web looks better ...
The Charlie Kirk shooting brings out the worst in social media
If you haven’t seen the video of a bullet killing Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah, you’re one ...
You’re paying too much for your phone
Apple did something wild at its big annual new iPhone event on Tuesday: It announced a phone that’s actually new. ...
What if your earbuds could read your mind?
For the past few months, when I really needed to get something done, I put on a special pair of ...
Little videos are cooking our brains
As an elder millennial, I’ve tried to avoid TikTok because of its documented brainrot potential and despite the fact that ...
Will the courts break up Google? The tech giant’s big problems, briefly explained.
Google just lost a huge antitrust case. A federal judge in Virginia ruled on Thursday that the search giant illegally ...
The surprising thing I learned from quitting Spotify
Last summer, I quit Spotify, and wrote about it with the rather unsubtle headline “Why I quit Spotify.” My reasons ...
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