Inside Elon Musk’s First Election Crisis—a Day After He ‘Freed’ the Bird
The day after Elon Musk closed his deal to buy Twitter, the company’s Seattle office held a Halloween party for employees and their children. Rebecca Scott...
GM’s Cruise Halts All US Robotaxi Service After Suspension for Pedestrian Who Was Dragged
Cruise, the self-driving arm of General Motors, said late today it had halted its robotaxi service across the US and would no longer operate its vehicles...
TikTok Streamers Are Staging ‘Israel vs. Palestine’ Live Matches to Cash In on Virtual Gifts
On multiple days over the course of the past week, a Turkish streamer who claims to represent Palestinians battled a Greek-Georgian streamer who claims to represent...
Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech
It was meant to be a week for women in tech—but this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration was swamped by men who gate-crashed the event in search...
The 15-Minute City Conspiracy Theory Goes Mainstream
Back in February, when a Conservative lawmaker in the UK’s House of Commons voiced support for the 15-minute city conspiracy, he was laughed at by his...
This Exec Is Forcing Google Into Its First Trial Over Sexist Pay Discrimination
The industry has made modest progress since then, although cuts to staff working on improving diversity during the recent wave of layoffs, could threaten that momentum....
Why Silicon Valley Falls for Frauds
Aditiya Baradwaj joined crypto-trading firm Alameda Research when it was run out of an anonymous first-floor office in downtown Berkeley, California. It was September 2021, and...
The Game Theory of the Auto Strikes
Everyone involved in the strike should be calculating what’s at stake to figure out what sort of offers they’d be willing to accept or make—in other...
5 Ways to Work Remotely (and Effectively) for the Long Haul
Covid-19 made remote work a reality for a lot of people, but for me, it was business as usual. I haven’t worked in a physical office...
Hey Zuck, Get Those Robots out of My Social Feed
When I bring up these concerns to Meta’s VP of generative AI, Ahmad Al-Dahle, post-keynote, he accuses me of having “a dystopian point of view.” Adding...