ChatGPT now serves more than 800 million users every week, and this rapid consumer adoption has created a powerful flywheel, accelerating the pace at which AI is being brought into work and professional settings. The history of general purpose technologies—from steam engines to semiconductors—shows…

Living in China is getting cheaper. Because rents in my neighborhood in central Beijing are dropping, my wife and I pressed our landlord to reduce ours by $140 a month in a new lease that we signed last month. He wasn’t too happy about it, but he’s lucky that we didn’t move out. Given the…

Introduction ‍ If you’ve been paying attention to the AI infrastructure space over the past six months, you’ve likely heard plenty about companies like Nebius and CoreWeave. These names have sparked significant investor interest—and suddenly, everyone seems to have an opinion on GPU economics. But…

Donald Trump’s flawed plan to get China hooked on Nvidia chips The president is tearing up America’s export-control policy Paramount fights Netflix for Warner Bros—and the future of Hollywood One firm needs scale, the other ideas How AI is disrupting shopping Looking for Christmas gifts? Just ask a…

(Image credit: Nvidia) Datacenter GPUs may only last from one to three years, depending on their utilization rate, according to a high-ranking Alphabet specialist, quoted by Tech Fund. As GPUs do all the heavy lifting for AI training and inference, they are the components that are under considerable…

Authored by: Mihir Kshirsagar This week, Open AI announced a multibillion dollar deal with Broadcom to develop custom AI chips for data centers projected to consume 10 gigawatts of power. This investment is separate from another multibillion dollar deal OpenAI struck with AMD last week. There is no…

Donald Trump makes no secret of his admiration for strongmen like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán or El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele. Last month, he praised Orbán’s hardline stance on immigration and urged European leaders to show more “respect” for the president; earlier this year his administration struck a…

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Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds A Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative investigation found that some grocery prices differed by as much as 23 percent per item from one Instacart customer to…

Dec 9th 2025|3 min read Listen to this story AI Narrated In the race to dominate artificial intelligence (AI), China is neck and neck with America in software. Chinese models now routinely outperform many American ones on popular benchmarks. But on hardware, a gap remains. America’s chipmakers, led…

After nearly a decade of expensive, hit-and-miss investments, Mohammed bin Salman is overseeing a behind-the-scenes restructuring of the kingdom’s all-important wealth fund. Listen to this article · 10:12 min Learn more President Trump welcomed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia to the…

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I used to think that the hype surrounding artificial intelligence was just that—hype. I was skeptical when ChatGPT made its debut. The media frenzy, the breathless proclamations of a new era—it all felt familiar. I assumed it would blow over like every tech fad before it.I was wrong. But not in the…

The United States is formulating plans to feed a massive military presence in the Caribbean almost to the end of President Donald Trump’s term in office — suggesting the recent influx of American troops to the region won’t end anytime soon. As gossip, official leaks, and RUMINT (a portmanteau of…

Sign up for The Weekly Planet, a guide to living through climate change. For most of its short life, my Tesla Model 3 has aged beautifully. Since I bought the car, in 2019, it has received a number of new features simply by updating its software. My navigation system no longer just directs me to EV…

Listen to this story AI Narrated Everyone is gloomy about America’s jobs market. Investors talk of a “K-shaped” economy, in which growth is buoyed by an exuberant stockmarket and artificial-intelligence investment, while ordinary Americans languish. Job creation and overall economic growth, which…

Bill Lowery, a sales executive, is confused when a workmate asks where he should take a date out for dinosaur. “You’re planning to take this girl out for dinosaur?” Lowery asks. “That’s right,” the colleague responds, totally nonchalant. Lowery presses him, agitated: “Wait a minute. You’re saying…

Listen to this story PORN HAS long been a proving ground for new technology. When Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 15th century it was quickly deployed to print bawdy pamphlets. Adult films were put on video in 1977, a year before mainstream Hollywood ones, and dominated sales…

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In the spring of 1988, I made a lifelong friend thanks to a video-game cheat code. As preparation for a family move to Pensacola, Florida, I visited my new school. While there, I casually told a future…

Twenty-five years into the 21st century, culture is markedly different than it was in the previous millennium. Everyday life has never contained more stuff—an endless reel of words, ideas, games, songs, videos, memes, outrageous statements, celebrity meltdowns, life hacks, extremely talented…

Published: November 9, 2025 Updated: November 26, 2025 Alchemists in medieval times apparently believed it was possible to transmute matter into gold—or, at least, were attempting to find out if it was possible to do so through an early, rudimentary version of what would eventually become chemistry.…

Digital asset treasury companies are running out of steam 0:00/604.599297 Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!), subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later. Crypto is always chasing its next infinite money machine. From the 2017 kimchi…

National AffairsNational AffairsThe Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time Getty Image/Ringer illustration Nov. 25, 6:36 pm GMT+1 • 15 min There’s no way around it. If you read this article,…

The first time I ever used the words “alhumdulilah”, which translates to praise be to God in Arabic, was the night of 16 November 2018. A Friday night news alert came through on my phone: “CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination.” I collapsed into my couch, repeating…

In this article INTU Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tax software provider Intuit has agreed to pay OpenAI more than $100 million in a multiyear deal to use the artificial intelligence startup's large language models to bolster its financial products. Intuit shares climbed 3% on Tuesday. By…

The 28-point peace plan that the United States and Russia want to impose on Ukraine and Europe is misnamed. It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian…

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported that the head of Russia’s Sberbank, German Gref, spoke of Russia’s economic problems in a meeting with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president. His bank was experiencing only “very modest” growth due to “challenging macroeconomic conditions” including…

Nov 13th 2025|4 min read Target is an American retailer that has been in the doldrums recently. In an attempt to improve the experience that customers have in its stores, it is instituting a new programme known as “10-4”. If a shopper comes within ten feet of a Target employee, staff are meant to…

Ever since President Trump started bombing alleged drug-carrying boats in the Caribbean Sea while refusing to provide even minimal factual justification for it, a couple of big questions have gone unanswered: Are Trump’s underlings being given illegal orders? Do they fear that they’re being given…

Listen to this story IF AMERICA’S stockmarket crashes, it will be one of the most predicted financial implosions in history. Everyone from bank bosses to the IMF has warned about the stratospheric valuations of America’s tech companies. Central bankers are bracing for financial trouble; investors…

In recent weeks China has released a series of statements, articles and photos, that analysts say signal an escalation in the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s approach to Taiwan. Beijing claims Taiwan as a province and has vowed to annex it under what it terms “reunification”. China’s military is…

On March 13, a woman from Salt Lake City, Utah called the Federal Trade Commission to file a complaint against OpenAI’s ChatGPT. She claimed to be acting “on behalf of her son, who was experiencing a delusional breakdown.” “The consumer’s son has been interacting with an AI chatbot called ChatGPT,…

Oct 20, 2025 Gina Trapani The extreme hype surrounding generative AI and technologies like LLMs has been exhausting over the last few years. Coupled with fear-based marketing against a backdrop of rolling layoffs—“if you’re not embracing AI you’ll be left behind”—it’s downright toxic. You can’t toss…

Things look a little different in the US these days. Leaves are turning, the football stadiums are full, and children are planning their trick-or-treating routes; there are also masked men snatching people off the streets, while the US military has had boots on the ground in four major cities,…

So why does Kathryn Bigelow’s doomsday thriller ‘A House of Dynamite’ feel just fine? By • - Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite is a ticking-clock thriller with a structural twist: It’s a nightmare on repeat. After walking us briskly through a doomsday scenario in which the highest echelons of…

zh Chinese de German ru Russian es Spanish Economics Oct 17, 2025 Experts might not expect a stock-market crash to cause a financial crisis, but what if they are wrong? With leverage built up in so many parts of the system and asset-price movements so closely correlated, the current US financial…

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Amazon Right now, if you want, you can download a web browser called Comet, made by AI search company Perplexity, and tell it to shop for you. You might type, for example, “buy me [a specific earbud] on Amazon,” after which it will open a tab, navigate to…

“Interviews are NOT real anymore.” So reads the opening caption of a TikTok posted in September, punctuated by the skull-and-crossbones emoji. In the video, a young woman interviews for a job on a video call. She has a smartphone propped up against her laptop screen, so she can read off the…