James O'Donnell

As cities reconsider the technology, it’s worth asking how the company’s design choices have shaped the trade-off between solving crimes and protecting civil liberties.

The company is imposing new guardrails on its police tech after reports that officers are abusing it and cities are dropping contracts. But the changes leave glaring loopholes.

Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics

Kimi and other free models from China have again been seen as a wake-up call. But for what?

The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a useful quantum machine. It aims to be the first.

The company says it has found a new window into how its models arrive at answers. We spoke with senior editor Will Douglas Heaven about it. 

Sam Altman wants Americans to share in AI’s wealth. The proposal may be more revealing as a political narrative than as a policy plan.

Marketing AI agents as digital employees may make human workers worse at spotting errors and more likely to offload accountability.

Marketing AI agents as digital employees may make human workers worse at spotting errors and more likely to offload accountability.

Anthropic’s standoff with Washington has already raised new questions about AI safety and sovereignty—and about Chinese competition.