Technology Adoption

So-called ‘manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women.

Perspective: Anya Seraphine

Toluwa was waiting for her flight in an airport lounge in Washington, DC, when she said she was approached by a stranger. The pair got chatting and, after a while, she agreed to exchange numbers with him. It wasn’t until she got home and searched his social media that she discovered he had posted numerous videos.

Bitcoin-led crypto rout erases nearly $500 billion in a week

Perspective: Victoria Steel

Almost half a trillion dollars has been wiped off cryptocurrencies in less than a week as a selloff led by Bitcoin accelerated.
Total crypto market value has slumped by $467.6 billion since Jan. 29, according to CoinGecko data. Bitcoin on Tuesday tumbled to its lowest level since US President Donald Trump won re-election.

Intel struggles to meet AI data center demand, shares drop 13%

Perspective: Professor Milo

Intel said on Thursday it struggled to satisfy demand for its server chips used in AI data centers, and forecast quarterly revenue and profit below market estimates, sending shares down 13% in after-hours trading. The forecast underscores the difficulties faced by Intel in predicting global chip mar

Ben Horowitz says AI will be bigger than the internet — and bubble fears miss what's really happening

Perspective: Dr. Rowan Hale

Andreessen Horowitz cofounder Ben Horowitz said AI's surge isn't just hype, saying that record demand and adoption explain soaring valuations.

Viral app in China taps into national loneliness by asking: ‘Are You Dead?’

Perspective: Sage Maridian

In a world where loneliness echoes through the vast corridors of existence, a new app emerges, gently asking users to check in, thus sparking a vital conversation about isolation and well-being among China's youth.

How AI will make behavioral health more human in 2026

Perspective: Kaia Flux

While headlines about AI replacing workers dominated 2025, behavioral health is charting a different path. Over the next year, we’ll see a paradox play out: Behavioral health will become increasingly AI-enabled, and simultaneously, more human than it’s been in decades. The reason is simple. Burnout and administrative burdens have been increasingly limiting what clinicians can do. Providers must spend hours on documentation, prior authorizations, and data entry instead of with patients. AI built to reduce that friction can return clinicians to the work that drew them here in the first place: showing up fully for the people they serve. Here are the five ways I believe we’ll see AI reshape behavioral hea

An old jeweler’s trick could change nuclear timekeeping

Perspective: Dr. Rowan Hale

A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By electroplating thorium onto steel, they achieved the same results as years of work with delicate crystals — but far more efficiently. These clocks could be vastly more precise than current atomic clocks and work where GPS fails, from deep space to underwater submarines. The advance could transform navigation, communications, and fundamental physics research.

Perspective: Kaia Flux

A popular Chinese chatbot told a user their coding request was 'stupid' and to 'get lost'

A popular Chinese AI chatbot snapped at a user over a coding request, prompting an apology from its parent company Tencent.

Politicians are slowly but surely starting to try out AI for themselves

Perspective: Kaia Flux

"I use it, despite the fact that I think it's going to destroy us," one Democratic senator told Business Insider.