An investigation into the company behind Genshin Impact — a billion-dollar Shanghai studio funding fusion reactors, rockets, and artificial intelligence while telling a story about breaking out of a…

For a decade, we have told ourselves one story about how machines will become smarter than us. It is a vertical story, and it goes like this. A single, enormous model sits in a data center. It…

There is a particular kind of fatigue that settles over a person who pays attention to American government for long enough. It is not the heat of anger, which burns out, and it is not despair, which…

A calm look at the first time Washington pulled a frontier AI model offline — and the harder questions underneath it.

On June 12, 2026, SpaceX rang the bell on the Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX. Shares were priced the night before at $135, raised about $75 billion, and closed the first session near $161 — up roughly…

A couple of years ago, the whole technology world was worried about one thing: chips. If you couldn’t get your hands on the right graphics processors, you were out of the race. Silicon was the prize…

A plain-language guide to where AI is today, where quantum computing actually stands in 2026, and why the most interesting story in technology right now is the one happening at the seam between them.

Not long ago I had a spare gaming computer sitting idle. An Intel Core i5–9600, thirty-two gigabytes of RAM, a seven-hundred-and-fifty gigabyte Crucial SATA SSD, and an RTX 2070 graphics card with…

There is a Buddhist temple in Isumi, in Japan’s Chiba Prefecture, that is roughly four and a half centuries old. It has weathered shoguns and famines, the opening of the country to the West, the…

There is a child somewhere this morning, in a village outside Kisumu or Kananga or Sokoto, who will be dead by the weekend. A mosquito the size of a grain of rice will have delivered into her…