Designer babies. Self-improving AI. Are we ready for either?
In one week, scientists edited human embryos and Anthropic said AI is accelerating its own development. Both could remake what…
Rolling the dice on Graham Platner
Platner’s candidacy is a massive opportunity — and risk — for the left.
How the Iran war could drive conflicts in countries thousands of miles away
Fuel and food prices are rising and protests are already breaking out.
Trump’s California election conspiracy
The president’s latest voter fraud fixation is a midterms preview.
The US just got its first new sunscreen in almost 30 years
The sunscreen, to be sold initially as Parsol Shield, is the first new sunscreen approved in the US in nearly…
Can this little truck solve America’s big EV problem?
How the affordable, bare-bones Slate truck is trying to win over American drivers.
There’s a new threat to the World Cup. FIFA might not be ready.
The world’s biggest sporting event has been heating up
The couples using ChatGPT as their therapist
“She’s conveying this stuff and I’m like, wow, you really think that? And she’s like, well, no, not really.”
The World Cup has a Trump problem
What Trump’s immigration policies mean for the World Cup
How the Pentagon picked a fight with Mormons
Are Mormons Christian? The US Department of Defense accidentally weighed in.