A warning about the NameDrop feature on iOS 17 is just the latest in a long history of misleading Facebook posts from law enforcement. Some police departments say kids could be in danger of accidentally sharing their contact info using…
The nuclear stakes of putting too much trust in AI. President Joe Biden greets Chinese leader Xi Jinping before a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Week in Woodside, California, on November 15, 2023.Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images…
Reed O’Connor is one of the most unapologetic Republican partisans in the entire federal judiciary. Elon Musk laughs during an in-conversation event with Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on November 2, 2023, following the UK Artificial Intelligence Safety…
These are the most effective charities for reducing animal suffering. In factory farms, pigs are sometimes locked in crates the width and length of their bodies, so they can’t even turn around. Getty Images If you care about animals and want…
The alternative — a mass exodus of OpenAI’s top talent to Microsoft — would have been worse. Sam Altman, the poster boy for AI, was ousted from his company OpenAI.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Sigal Samuel is a senior reporter for Vox’s…
9 questions about OpenAI’s wild weekend, answered. Sam Altman, former (and future?) CEO of OpenAI, just 11 days before his surprise firing.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images So, OpenAI had a weird weekend. The hottest company in tech is imploding after the shocking…
Apple is adopting Google’s texting standard, but blue bubble elitism will probably continue. Those notorious green Android texts will stick around for a while yet.Javier Zayas Photography/Vox Sara Morrison is a senior Vox reporter who has covered data privacy, antitrust,…
The hive mind of the internet is good, for once. Reddit is good for more than just memeing.Tim Goode/PA Images via Getty Images Adam Clark Estes is the technology editor of Vox. Prior to joining Vox, Estes covered the intersection…
What we learned (and didn’t learn) from the big Google antitrust trial. Google’s New York City office.Spencer Platt/Getty Images Sara Morrison is a senior Vox reporter who has covered data privacy, antitrust, and Big Tech’s power over us all for…
Meta knows its platforms are harming children, whistleblower Arturo Béjar says. What now? Arturo Bejar, a former Facebook employee and consultant for Instagram, is sworn in during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law hearing to examine…