7+ hour, 6+ min ago  (216+ words) In the data-center age, the business of tech companies is more like oil-refining than coding. Read: Inside the dirty, dystopian world of AI data centers Power is only one part of the challenge. A data center requires wiring together dozens…...

8+ hour, 28+ min ago  (18+ words) As young people struggle to sit through even an hour of a film, modern blockbusters are getting longer....

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (157+ words) How thirsty is AI, actually? And why does everyone care so much? The other school, populated by Silicon Valley types, holds that “The Data Center Water Crisis Isn’t Real,” as an article in the right-wing publication Pirate Wires argued in…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (513+ words) Yes, he’s a toddler. But he’s not too young to appreciate a great yarn. It’s a gruesome scene, one of many in this confusing, archaic poem composed some 3,000 years ago. One night this winter, hearing Scylla’s tale read aloud to…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (49+ words) The Atlantic Finally, text flashes on the screen: “There’s hope in hard questions.” In the background, we see the ocean. And then Anthropic’s tagline: “Keep thinking.” Read: A new phase of the AI-jobs panic Read: When Claude met Claude...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (149+ words) Test your knowledge—and read our stories for a little extra help. Your questions today come again from the August issue of The Atlantic, this time from Judith Shulevitz’s essay on a generational divide over punctuation symbolized in her relationship…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (281+ words) The memory is being put into data centers, which tech firms are expanding at incredible speed. They are planning to multiply total U.S.-data-center capacity by a factor of eight over the next few years. The demand for electricity at these…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (193+ words) The Bachelorette promoted Taylor Frankie Paul as a new kind of heroine. Then reality got in the way. If reality shows are twists on fairy tales—stories with moral messages and bits of enchantment—ABC’s promotion of its new star…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (50+ words) A collection of winners and selected images from the competition’s “Top 101” grouping, chosen from more than 1,500 entries by professional and amateur aerial photographers around the world... Be sure to visit the IAPOTY competition website to view the full list of…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (163+ words) The Atlantic We are stuck with AI’s favorite writing tic. One obstacle to a more comprehensive fix is that no one seems to know for certain why AI models are so enamored with negative parallelism in the first place—maybe…...