✨ Editorials
Deeper research
on the specific abilities
of AI
Editorials on the most interesting capability questions: where the frontier is, how it got there, what comes next.
Emotional
can an AI become a stand-in for the person we lost
Personalized memorial chatbots promise comfort after loss, but is the comfort real—or just a clever mimicry of human warmth?
5 min read · May 14, 2026
Creative
AI can now make faces you can't trust
Photorealistic fake humans arrived in 2019. Today they stare back at us.
4 min read · May 12, 2026
finance
AI can file taxes but won't cut the red tape
Software already drafts returns, but full autonomy remains stalled by audits, signatures, and the small matter of liability
7 min read · May 11, 2026
warfare
AI can now design and deploy self-evolving chemical weapons
Machines can now generate toxic molecules, plan attacks, and adapt defenses in real time—raising urgent questions about what autonomy means in warfare
5 min read · May 10, 2026
finance
AI can now sway currency markets faster than regulators notice
AI predictive models now trade on crypto sentiment fast enough to destabilize national currencies—before anyone can respond
5 min read · May 10, 2026
Emotional
AI can now sense when a friend is barely holding on
The first time an algorithm noticed my sadness before I did, it wasn't magic—it was data.
6 min read · May 9, 2026