Tech

OpenAI's Altman takes jabs at Anthropic, says government should be more powerful than companies

The startup landed a deal with the Department of Defense hours after Anthropic was blacklisted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Even in these depressing times, Love is Blind is profoundly bleak television

The 10th season of Netflix’s reality TV show has given us old-fashioned gender roles, bad behavior and a dark look at what dating looks like in 2026

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley audiobook review

Actor Katie Leung narrates this genre-bending debut in which an Victorian Arctic explorer is catapulted into our brave new world

The ‘Jim Carrey is a clone’ theory is absurd. Of course people believe it

Conspiracy claims have erupted over the star’s appearance. These days, I can’t blame people for endless skepticism

A Western That Goes Where Cormac McCarthy Wouldn’t

Álvaro Enrigue’s Now I Surrender scraps the simplistic binary of cowboys and Indians in favor of a wild, multifaceted war story.

Pokémon Pokopia Review

Nintendo Switch 2; Game Freak/Omega Force/Nintendo Work together with a bunch of lovable Pokémon to restore a long-abandoned town in this novel, absorbing game that’s quite unlike others in the series

Don’t Call It ‘Intelligence’

Humans are question machines. AI is an answer machine.

$700 Erewhon hauls, 21-hour shifts: celebrity assistants go public with their grueling, fabulous work

Staff for the rich and famous are influencerizing their day-to-day lives, giving followers access to luxury while creating financial safety nets for themselves

Iran's Shahed Drone: How 'The Poor Man's Cruise Missile' Is Shaping Tehran's Retaliation

After years on the front lines of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Iranian Shahed-136 drone is at the center of Tehran's retaliation against recent U.S. strikes.

Checking your ex’s socials or overusing Find My Friends? Welcome to the age of interpersonal surveillance

Invasive behaviour that would have shocked us a decade ago now barely registers. And that includes the way we digitally track and monitor each other

Vladimir review

This adaptation of the 2022 novel – starring Weisz, Leo Woodall and John Slattery – fits it perfectly to television. It’s a proper show for proper grownups

Why Bugonia Should Win the Best Picture Oscar

Contains spoilers: Emma Stone’s hard-faced corporate CEO has a lot of explaining to do when she is kidnapped by Jesse Plemons’s conspiracy kook. But in this film, asking whether someone is an alien seems an ordinary inquiry