The New York Times

‘Surveil, Govern and Control’: What Could Go Wrong?

Mr. Edsall contributes weekly essays from Washington on politics, demographics and inequality. Sixteen years ago, Peter Thiel, the multibillionaire co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, was ...
The New Yorker

Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”?

You’re reading Infinite Scroll, Kyle Chayka’s weekly column on how technology shapes culture. The “lumpenproletariat,” according to “The Communist Manifesto,” is “the social scum, that passively ...
Observer

A.I. Won’t Replace Workers. But Only If We Act Now.

Too much of today’s conversation about A.I. is stuck in the wrong frame. While pundits debate whether robots will steal jobs, the real question is much simpler: Can we prepare workers fast enough, or ...
Observer

Lisa Su Shows Off AMD’s High-End Chips Designed for A.I.’s ‘Yotta-Scale’ Future

Lisa Su holds up the AMD Ryzen AI Halo, an A.I. developer platform, during AMD’s keynote at CES 2026 on Jan. 5, 2026. Caroline Brehman / AFP via Getty Images At CES 2026, AMD CEO Lisa Su used the ...