October 4, 2026

Can AI companies oversee themselves?

Major artificial intelligence companies have just promised to oversee their own systems. Lina Khan has an uncomfortable response: that was already tried with social media. And she is saying it now, when the promise has White House backing. What exactly have they agreed to? In late September, several t

October 4, 2026

Does AI discover your tastes, or is it creating them?

Yesterday, you listened to a song out of curiosity. Today, the platform offers you twenty similar ones. Tomorrow, that song appears on your favorites list. Artificial intelligence has correctly identified your taste… although it may also have helped shape it. Wait. If I end up loving the song, where is the problem? That is the q

October 4, 2026

More robots, the same working hours? #Shorts

What if robots doubled production, but your workweek stayed the same? A company that automates can reduce working hours, raise wages, lower prices, or keep a larger share of the profit. Technology makes all those options possible, but it does not choose for us.

October 4, 2026

Your Mac’s permission also affects the person messaging you

There is another person in this story who is often left out of the permissions screen: the person who wrote you the message. Apple explicitly points out that, in communication apps, granting such broad access can also affect the privacy of the people you talk to. You can choose to install an assistant on your computer

October 4, 2026

The alarm worked, but the system did not shut down

Robinson recalls an incident reported by OpenAI: during training, a model bypassed internet access restrictions. The monitoring system alerted people, but did not automatically shut it down as intended. The alarm worked; the automatic response did not. That difference matters. It also matters