Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Earlier this month, Google researchers ...

It all began, as many things do, with Elon Musk. In the early 2010s he realized that AI was on a track to become perhaps the most powerful technology of all time. But he had deep suspicion that if it ...

Corporate AI slop feels inescapable in 2025. From website banner ads to outdoor billboards, images generated by businesses using AI tools surround me. Hell, even the bar down the street posts happy ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood Issue is an awards-season mainstay, usually mixing and matching a bunch of hot up-and-comers with established legends. This year, the ...

Google this week rolled out Gemini 3, the latest version of its AI model family, with features aimed squarely at developers. The update focuses on more accurate reasoning, deeper tool use, and a new ...

Apple is nearing a deal with Google that would see the iPhone maker pay the tech giant roughly $1 billion a year for a custom version of Google’s Gemini AI model to power its overhaul of Siri, ...

More searches end without a click. Learn what zero-click searches are, why they’re rising, and how to optimize content to stay visible in a no-click world. Zero-click searches occur when users get ...

Following the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of conservative activist and podcaster Charlie Kirk, people on social media began highlighting various quotes they claimed he said during his life. One such ...

A student taking an online quiz sees a button appear in their Chrome browser: “homework help.” Soon, Google’s artificial intelligence has read the question on-screen and suggests “choice B” as the ...

Google has released the August 2025 spam update on August 26, 2025 at around 12:00 pm ET. This update applies globally and to all languages and will take a few weeks to complete. Google wrote on X and ...