September 27, 2026

AI is not destroying the web by writing answers

Artificial intelligence is not destroying the web by writing answers. It is putting it at risk because it has broken the economic bargain that allowed the web to produce something valuable in the first place. For decades, the arrangement was imperfect but understandable: a search engine crawled your page, displayed a link, and

September 26, 2026

Dubai bets $3 billion on Musk's tunnels

Three billion dollars have flowed into The Boring Company, Elon Musk's tunneling company, in a funding round led by the United Arab Emirates. A huge sum for a company that, beyond its famous name, still has to prove that its tunnels can deliver true mass transit.

September 26, 2026

AI found something strange, but it is not the next CRISPR

An artificial intelligence system scanned an enormous number of DNA sequences and stopped at something that seemed out of place: a long, orderly series of repeats next to an unusual viral enzyme. And before anyone thinks about editing babies, curing diseases, or announcing the next CRISPR, it is worth saying…

September 26, 2026

Who benefits from teaching a robot to work?

The conflict is not just about labor; it is also about information. The company may be capturing the knowledge of those who do the work and turning it into models, processes, and intellectual property that do not belong to those workers. This is not necessarily unfair by definition. Automation can eliminate tasks