Editors' Picks Articles

Brooke Becher

Updated on July 24, 2025

Rare earth metals are a key ingredient in modern tech — and a new flashpoint in the escalating U.S.-China trade war. As China flexes its rare earth monopoly, the race to secure these critical resources is reshaping global economic and security strategies.

Brooke Becher

Updated on July 24, 2025

The Trump administration is letting American chip makers like Nvidia and AMD sell select AI chips to China again. While these chips aren’t the most advanced, they restore vital compute power Chinese companies had previously been denied.

Matthew Urwin

Updated on July 23, 2025

The Deploying American Blockchains Act is set to become the first law to lay out a national blockchain strategy in the U.S. It could be a game-changer for the industry — and a defining moment for America’s place in the global blockchain race.

Ellen Glover

Updated on July 23, 2025

Grok 4 is xAI’s most intelligent model yet, touting real-time search, agentic capabilities and unmatched performance. A more powerful, “heavy” version is out too, available only through a new $300/month SuperGrok Heavy subscription.

Yashin Manraj

Updated on July 23, 2025

A recent ChatGPT outage reveals that reliability is the most important quality for an AI tool.

Matthew Urwin

Updated on July 21, 2025

The GENIUS Act is the first major crypto legislation in the United States. Although it zeroes in on stablecoins, it will likely affect the entire industry. Here’s how.

Ellen Glover

Updated on July 17, 2025

Grok is an AI assistant and chatbot developed by xAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) corporation founded by Elon Musk. It is programmed to “maximize truth and objectivity,” and can answer “spicy” questions with witty and “rebellious” answers.

Brooke Becher

Updated on July 15, 2025

Enterprise AI helps companies streamline operations, reduce costs and make better data-driven decisions.

Kerry Halladay

Updated on July 14, 2025

Spam or safe? Thanks to machine learning, your phone’s getting better at screening calls.

Matthew Urwin

Updated on July 10, 2025

Artificial intelligence has destabilized Google’s search engine supremacy, and Perplexity is primed to remake the industry in its own image.