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Bill Gates is still optimistic about the world's future—depending on these 3 questions

Bill Gates is optimistic that our lives will continue to improve in the coming decades despite "many challenges and so much polarization," he wrote on Friday.

Elon Musk says UK wants to suppress free speech as X faces possible ban

Ministers warn platform could be blocked after Grok AI used to create sexual images without consent

Behind Anthropic's stunning growth is a sibling team that may hold the key to generative AI

Daniela Amodei has helped build Anthropic into a serious AI player by betting on safety and enterprise adoption.

Are we in an AI bubble? What 40 tech leaders and analysts are saying, in one chart

OpenAI and Nvidia have gone on a blitz of AI infrastructure deals while hyperscalers continue to spend billions in capex.

AI memory is sold out, causing an unprecedented surge in prices

Three primary memory vendors — Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics — make up nearly the entire RAM market, and they're benefitting from this shortage.

‘The boy’s contented face, his red hair matching the pig’s

Remote photography didn’t dilute the intimacy of this blissful moment in the Nevada sunshine

2026: The year AI rewires the economy

Warren Buffett once quipped, “Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.” Still, predictions, when well framed, can illuminate the trajectory of technology and business strategy. With that in mind, here are six economic and technological predictions for AI in 2026.

To fix federal IT, we need the Technology Modernization Fund

On Dec. 12, 2025, Congress‘s authorization of the Technology Modernization Fund expired, limiting the government’s ability to deploy up to $200 million that could otherwise go toward improving federal information technology systems.

The 15 best games to play on the Nintendo Switch in 2026

From the greatest cartoon racing game in history to a remastered version of an Alien-inspired sci-fi shooter, here are the Switch’s must-play games

Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America ‘great again’: the novelists who predicted our present

From Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have foreseen some of the major developments of our age. What can we learn from their prophecies?

Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again

The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives

The Men Who Came After Liberty Valance

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