Imagine being in the control room at your grownup TV job the first time you realize that television is created by people making choices, and doesn’t just happen organically.

“I have been in combat in Afghanistan,” Scott Pelley told the NYT just after he was fired. “I have been in combat in Iraq. I have been in the war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

I tell ya, if you agree to judge any literary contest, you better put your full self into it, in this age of AI slop and plagiarism. And that includes how you describe the winners, so we don't think you had AI help writing those fulsome anodyne descriptions lol.

The Android XR sunglasses are pretty cute. I'm surprised they went with such a feminine design, especially given how much more skeptical of AI women seem to be in general.

One interesting piece of coding news—agentic coding is being consolidated under the Antigravity brand. Gemini CLI is becoming Antigravity CLI. Perhaps that heralds some much-needed refocusing for the company's agentic coding efforts.

I'm @ Google I/O in sunny Mountain View today, and I'll be sharing my thoughts here throughout the day. We're just over halfway through the keynote now, and one thing is already pretty obvious—Google isn't coming for Anthropic and OpenAI's shared agentic coding crown anytime soon

I understand this may come off as salty (and maybe it is!) but it's accurate. Thiel may have never told anyone on record that he did what he did had we not published it first at Forbes.

What?

Look, look, look, I'm sorry. Look. I don't do the best job of promoting my own work. So, here I am. Posting.

Cool. Cool. The venue holds 2900 people. Cool.

OpenAI's lawyer pulls up a photo of the founding members of OpenAI during the company's early days, wearing T-shirts and jeans in a scrappy office and “working day and night," he says. Musk, who was at Y Combinator, came by occasionally to “yell at people for not moving fast enough,” he says.

“No one should be allowed to steal a charity,” says Musk's lawyer. Musk brings two claims against OpenAI (breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment) and one claim against Microsoft (aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty).

“Either go do something on your own or continue with OpenAI as a nonprofit,” Elon Musk told Sam Altman and Greg Brockman in the company's early days. Musk's lawyer says Altman and Brockman reassured him that they were comitted to keeping OpenAI a nonprofit.

I'm a reporter (and lawyer) covering Musk v. Altman for @technologyreview.com . Here's what's going on day 2 of the trial at the Oakland federal courthouse. Elon Musk and Sam Altman are here. Musk will likely testify today. Opening statements from both parties' lawyers to come soon.

I'll be reporting on the Musk v. Altman trial at the Oakland courthouse for @technologyreview.com. I'm a lawyer who clerked for a federal judge in California, so follow me to unpack what's really happening in the courtroom! www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/27/1...

This is my district. You know things are bad when the URL slug is "supervisor-silly" (the url slug is not wrong) missionlocal.org/2026/04/dist...

"Cringey texts, raw diary entries, and endless scheming behind the founding and growth of OpenAI are expected to come to light," in Elon Musk's case against OpenAI, @technologyreview.com's Michelle Kim writes. She'll have up-to-the-minute coverage on X www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/27/1...

Last night @carnage4life.bsky.social accused me of helping perpetuate negative myths about AI. I hate when people perpetuate negative myths about AI, so this thread will be about the very many real harms committed using AI by Dare's employer Meta. 1/

Once again, I repeat: data centers are a political issue and their capacity to motivate voters should not be underestimated. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

I know the whole world appears to be going in the other direction. But someone is going to make an authentic appeal to basic morality and justice one of these days, and that person will become President of the United States.

Trump's new Navy Secretary is very concerned about an implacable foe: "Witchcraft," which has "really taken over" in places like California. www.businessinsider.com/hung-cao-gop...

Jay Bhattacharya falsely accused people of “censoring” him for years — including Stanford Internet Observatory. He has his job because of pretend censorship — he parlayed being a fake victim into a government appointment. Here he is suppressing a paper because he doesn’t like its conclusions.

Plus we have this really perceptive feature from @gracehuckins.bsky.social about the new super-powered surveillance state that is emerging. www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1...

As well as the list itself we have this really fun essay from @mathonan.com about 'malaise', the general sense of uncertainty and concern that many of us are feeling. www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1...

Our big new list, all about AI, is live now! We asked our reporters and editors: what do our readers really NEED to know about where we are right now. This is what they said. www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1...

I wrote about the era AI malaise, which we are all living in. www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1...

Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers. The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits." My story:

Like all Americans, I am excited to buy Joe Rogan-branded over the counter LSD at the 7-11

JD Vance just held a stadium rally in Athens, Georgia that attracted eleven people. But could he really be expected to compete with a sighting of Mike Mills buying cashews at the Earth Fare grocery store?

I don't know if young people these days understand that this kind of grotesque gutter racism was simply not acceptable in public... not that long ago!

Cool, cool, well as long as they are happy

I've been so excited about this for months, but we have new fiction in our May/June issue, the Nature issue, from @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Look for it coming soon on the newsstand, or you read online right now: www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/10/1...

This is a wild scoop from my colleague @antonioregalado.bsky.social on the stealth startup looking into some incredibly ethically murky #biotech longevity solutions www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1...

In fairness, I have also squeezed some ski content into @technologyreview.com (But now there'll be no holding back my powder pitches, @mathonan.com.) www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/14/1...

Golly I remember when Trump said he was going to throw Mark Zuckerberg in prison. I wonder what changed?

Please stop posting these ICE agents without their parents' consent.

I love seeing Chris Anderson criticize Katie. Chris was so ethics-free that he put HIS OWN DRONE COMPANY, WHICH HE OWNED WHILE EDITING WIRED, at the heart of a cover package. I was covering drones as death-instruments for Wired at the time & wasn’t even told about the cover. Wont happen under Katie!

Oh. www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/12/1...

A DOGE software engineer is alleged to have taken records on more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... by @merylkornfield.bsky.social et al

I have literally watched something like 5 hours of this DOGE bro testimony. I'm completely obsessed, it's weirdly captivating. The circular arguments, the disdain from everyone involved, a true pleasure to watch Follow 404 Media on Instagram (www.instagram.com/404mediaco/) for more like this

The night sky is ours. All of ours. Our children’s. Their children’s. We should be doing more to preserve the view of the stars for all. We give this up for some ludicrous to churn out wasteful nonsense to feed rich maniacs’ grift, it’s not coming back…

Homemade intelligence dashboards on Iran are spreading. But an abundance of information does not come with the accuracy or context required for real understanding. Intelligence agencies do this in-house; good journalism does the same work for the rest of us www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/09/1...

NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

MIT Technology Review is thrilled to announce that this story, which offers a first-of-its-kind look at AI's energy use and climate impact, is a National Magazine Awards finalist in the Reporting category.

I could not be more excited about this

“In a criminal trial, I would feel morally obligated to convict, however, in a civil trial I could set those views aside,” adding, “I believe it would be to the benefit of the human race for Mr. Musk to be sent to prison.” www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

I have a very short Cash App user name which means I get a *lot* of mistaken payments (I always refund them!) but this was pretty good

Alysa Liu. A proud product of Oakland.