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Has the A.I. Job Apocalypse Been Postponed?

The Financial Page So far, the proliferation of products such as Claude and ChatGPT hasn’t led to mass displacement of workers. But deployment is accelerating and economic pressures are rising. September 7, 2026 Source photograph by Mel Musto / Bloomberg / Getty You’re reading The Financial Page, John Cassidy’s weekly

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Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I.

Credit...Daniel Zender the shift The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves. Credit...Daniel Zender Listen · 8:44 min Sept. 3, 2026 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版Leer en español When I first heard the news this summer that a group of artificial intelligence agents

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Hegseth’s Pentagon Lurches off the Rails

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. Making Pete Hegseth the secretary of defense was always a huge gamble. A television host with little background in national-security or defense affairs, who topped out as a major in the National Guard, he

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An Alien Mind

In mid-2023, within the “RLSlow” research project, we saw the first results that gave us confidence that we will be able to scale the training of reasoning models, unlocking the capability of pretrained models to form their own chains of thought. Szymon and I spent that night at the office,

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Rerun or sequel? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on end times fascism

Subscribe to unlock this article Try unlimited access Only €1 for 4 weeks Then €69 per month. Complete digital access to quality FT journalism on any device. Cancel anytime during your trial. Keep reading for €1 Explore more offers. FT Edit €54 per year Access to eight surprising articles a

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A New World Order Is Coming. We Aren’t Ready.

Guest Essay Sept. 1, 2026 Credit...Photo Illustration by Alma Haser for The New York Times Listen · 12:11 min Leer en español阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York

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We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys

After reading Jill Lepore’s The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, I have a new destination for a time machine, should I ever finally get my hands on one. I’d set the dial to some night in the late 1970s or ’80s and visit the boyhood rooms of the

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Your future is in Virginia

InIn 2007, the US was on the cusp of an economic recession, and Buddy Rizer was tasked with finding Loudoun County, Virginia, a new way to make money. Rizer’s earlier career as a radio DJ didn’t exactly make him an obvious candidate to find a solution, but he was looking

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What Might Happen to Trump’s Ill-Gotten Gains

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Americans are not accustomed to learning lessons about democracy from Nigeria, Peru, or the Philippines. That disregard may soon change. Those countries offer examples of what it looks like to reclaim stolen or

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I Study Successful People. They Have One Habit in Common.

Guest Essay Aug. 28, 2026 Credit...Nyo Jinyong Lian Listen · 5:28 min Leer en español阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google I was once stranded

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Bill Simmons Is De-Apexing | Defector

It's been an eventful year for Ringer founder and podcast host Bill Simmons. He ended 2025 and began 2026 at a peak in popularity, thanks to his performance on a podcast titled "Bill’s 50 Most Rewatchable Movies of the 21st Century," which earned him the kind of crossover appeal he's

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Bill Gates Warns A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit

Bill Gates is the latest in a string of tech luminaries to call out the risks of artificial intelligence.Credit...Chona Kasinger for The New York Times In an hourlong interview, he said his industry was downplaying the risks, which he believes include mass unemployment and bioterrorism. Bill Gates is the latest

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The MAHA Custody Battle

American Chronicles A father wanted to vaccinate his children. Their mother didn’t. Then the kids got sick. August 31, 2026 Michael Lee Horrocks believes that, during the pandemic, Leah Stelly went down a TikTok rabbit hole and never came out. “I feel like I’m living in crazy town,” he said.Illustration

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