July 2026

In the final weeks before Romania’s presidential vote in November 2024, TikTok accounts that had previously spent years posting about […]

Giovanni Kanter goes to at least one art museum whenever he visits a new city. That’s on top of his

Artificial intelligence may not deliver on its promise of vast economic opportunity at a price that humanity is willing to

Meta is testing an app that uses AI to automate bedtime stories for children. The future is here, folks — and

By now, it should be pretty clear that the corporate executives of the world aren’t exactly into AI because they

Plus: Russian hackers are trying to steal US nuclear scientists’ emails, the State Department bans known scammers from entering the

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that spoke in tongues, sought forbidden love, orbited an

Who could’ve guessed that students who use AI to cheat on their assignments are incredibly lazy? Jason Gibson, a history

Avtar spent decades wondering what happened to the mother he never got to know. Thousands of miles away, Nicci was

Paramount Skydance agreed to a longer-term delay of its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, preventing the companies from