Nick Bilton

Digital deception is already muddying the waters of the 2024 election cycle. But if you think it’s bad now, just wait until the tech starts drawing on your biodata and browsing history, exploiting your biggest fears and deepest desires.

Once seen as a real-life Iron Man, the Tesla chief has morphed into a total Trump fanboy—and admits he’ll be “f--ked” if the former president loses. Will he use X to throw a wrench in the works if Harris wins?

The colorized e-reader is a counterrevolutionary product in a marketplace littered with AI algorithms and social media apps that leave you feeling more depleted than fulfilled.

No matter who wins on Election Day, Americans will continue to dwell in incompatible media bubbles until Silicon Valley addresses its algorithm problem.

As the insurance industry reckons with the death of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, it should also reexamine its use of algorithmic coverage decisions, which further dehumanize people in need of lifesaving care.

The Supreme Court won’t be rescuing TikTok, as billionaires and political leaders scramble to keep the app alive in the US ahead of a looming deadline. But amid all the eleventh-hour drama, the rationale for banning it in the first place—national security concerns stemming from its Chinese ownership—hasn’t gone away.

Silicon Valley insiders tell Vanity Fair what they think is behind the mega-billionaire’s DOGE crusade. “Elon believes he should be emperor of the world,” one close associate says.

Trump has always been a wrecking ball, but now that he’s pummeling Big Tech’s perceived enemies, he’s become a hero to a previously liberal industry.

There’s no shortage of bad blood between the once-allied tech titans as their bitter dispute over OpenAI’s for-profit future is expected to go to trial later this year. “You can only have one emperor,” says an insider.

New data suggest that entry-level jobs are facing an extinction-level event thanks to artificial intelligence. It’s only going to work its way up the org chart from there.