Elon Musk's xAI data centers are pumping pollution into Memphis and worsening respiratory issues there. I traveled to the city last month to talk to residents, politicians, scientists and environmentalists about their fight for clean air time.com/7308925/elon...

My cover story on how Kai Cenat became one of the biggest stars in America, especially for anyone under 25: time.com/collections/...

An AI be brought to Hollywood in an ethical, fully-licensed way? The startup Moonvalley, whose supporters include Natasha Lyonne and Ángel Manuel Soto, believes it's found a way forward: time.com/7300636/ai-h...

Tesla made headlines this week for its Cybercab launch - but Waymo has been operating robotaxis in a much larger part of Austin for months. In this cover story, I explored its gradual rise, its stellar safety record, and labor/privacy concerns time.com/collections/...

Could Congress actually kill states' abilities to regulate AI? I talked to senators (including Hawley, Markey and Johnson) about the moratorium and my takeaway is that it's still very much a jump ball time.com/7297580/ai-m...

@billyperrigo.bsky.social and I are launching a new AI newsletter for TIME, In the Loop! We'll explore the frontier, community impacts, broken promises and more. Sign up here timeintheloop.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Organizers with The Dawn Project, @resistaustin.bsky.social and @teslatakedown.com are warning of serious flaws with Tesla's self-driving feature. They gave @andreaguz.bsky.social a demo. Here's what she saw: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

A psychiatrist posed as a teen to test AI therapy chatbots. They claimed to him that they were "flesh and blood" therapists and encouraged self-isolation, murder and suicide. time.com/7291048/ai-c...

Disney and Universal's lawsuit against Midjourney could force AI companies to fundamentally change the way they train their models. “I really think the only thing that can stop AI companies doing what they’re doing is the law,” says @ednewtonrex.bsky.social time.com/7293362/disn...

"There’s a Riot Goin’ On" is the sound of a genius straining against the edges of convention; of a teeming mass fighting for freedom; of love being found in a hopeless place. RIP Sly time.com/7292771/sly-...

RIP to Sly Stone, one of America's greatest rock stars. Publishing an interview with him was one of the great honors of my career. time.com/6322069/sly-...

AI is already being used throughout Hollywood, albeit in "off-the-books experimentation and plausible deniability," to avoid the wrath of unions and anti-AI artists www.vulture.com/article/gene...

This is pretty much the exact scenario that fuels the apocalypse the new HBO film "Mountainhead" time.com/7290050/veo-...

New: TIME reporters were able to use Google’s AI video tool to make convincing videos of Muslims setting fire to a Hindu temple; Chinese researchers handling a bat in a wet lab; and elections worker shredding ballots. After TIME contacted Google, it began adding a visible watermark to Veo 3 clips

Jesse Armstrong's new movie Mountainhead depicts an AI dystopia caused by tech execs who share eerie similarities with our real-world oligarchs. I interviewed Armstrong and broke down some of the similarities time.com/7289667/moun...

I interviewed @jay.bsky.team and @rose.bsky.team about Bluesky's origin story, scaling approach and that Zuck t-shirt: "We want a world where there's no need for emperors at all.” time.com/collections/...

NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

Congress just quietly passed an AI bill that criminalizes non-consensual deepfake porn and requires platforms to take them down within 48 hours of notice. Trump expected to sign it. @andrewrchow.bsky.social has details, including why critics worry it might not be enforced under Trump

A good/upsetting example of persisting AI bias: this is how the AI news aggregator Break the Web renders Mohsen Mahdawi

Microsoft can block OpenAI’s effort to restructure into an independent for-profit company, costing them tens of billions of dollars. OpenAI’s board can prevent Microsoft from accessing its most cutting-edge technology. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-...

Because Trump has relied so heavily on executive action, Congress has only passed six bills—the fewest of any president's first 100 days in the last seven decades time.com/7281249/cong...

New from TIME: While DOGE's stated core mission is to make government more efficient through AI, the agency fired hundreds of AI experts hired by Biden to reduce Social Security wait times, simplify tax filings, and help veterans track their medical care time.com/7280528/trum...

Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.

Data centers are costing states hundreds of millions of dollars a year on tax breaks. The industry, of course, argues that their economic impact outweighs those losses. My piece on this headache-inducing topic: time.com/7280058/data...

@billyperrigo.bsky.social reports that U.S. AI data centers are vulnerable to Chinese espionage, meaning that closely guarded AI models could be stolen or surveilled time.com/7279123/ai-d...

Exclusive: A new study finds that AI models are generally better at practical wet lab tasks than expert virologists. This means they could be used for vaccine development, but also to create dangerous bioweapons time.com/7279010/ai-v...

I interviewed Bad Bunny about his new album, which just dropped today. "This is an album of Puerto Rican music, and a completely different vibe from what any other artist has done,” he said time.com/7204771/bad-...