By 5 am every morning, Emma Waters is on the sofa with a blanket, plotting America’s baby-making future. For two hours, she stays off her phone, inspired by Deep Work, the self-help bestseller. At 7:30, she does emails. Waters, 28 years old, is a monk of productivity who makes motherhood

The August 31 Instagram post from Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue, a lesbian bar in Greenfield, was upbeat, teasing a new DJ lineup and a volunteer meetup. But partway down the rainbow-hued post labeled “UPDATES!” was a sentence that would splinter the queer community in this small Pioneer Valley

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. During the 2003 Iraq War, then–Major General David Petraeus famously said to the journalist and historian Rick Atkinson, “Tell me how this ends.” It is the obvious query to be posed about the conflict with Iran, but it requires a different

The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong. Listen · 5:12 min OpenAI offices in San Francisco.Credit...Lucas Foglia for The New York Times Sept. 16, 2026 Leer en español OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes,

Comment Why can’t the people who produced the technology, which has already shown that a different world is possible, just do the things that would prevent extinction? September 20, 2026 Photo illustration by Cristiana Couceiro; Source photograph from Getty A decade ago, when Facebook and Uber were at the height

The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong. Listen · 5:12 min OpenAI offices in San Francisco.Credit...Lucas Foglia for The New York Times Sept. 16, 2026 Leer en español OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes,

The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments. Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks. After a little while, you’ll start recognizing familiar Tetromino shapes in clouds, buildings, and everyday objects. You might even see them appear

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on streaming platforms, FAST channels, and the future of entertainment, follow Charles Pulliam-Moore. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started

Ed Sheeran has long been known as the “Mr Nice Guy” of music. His is an unthreatening kind of pop stardom; he looks and talks like the bloke who might be standing behind you in a pub, rather than someone selling out stadiums. He champions other artists, he celebrates different

Every year since 2007, Apple has debuted a new flagship iPhone. Other than the just plain “iPhone” original, they all have numbers of some sort in their name. If you make a list of them in order, it’s a bit of a marketing curiosity that the only one of the

As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students. Listen · 10:19 min Some university leaders have said schools must embrace A.I. to stay relevant.Credit...Philip Cheung for The New York Times Sept. 15, 2026 See more

Q. & A. Employees of A.I. companies are increasingly sounding the alarm. What should we make of their warnings? September 16, 2026 Dario Amodei, the C.E.O. of Anthropic.Source photograph from Getty Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics

It is just past noon on a midweek day, and already every table at Au Bon Accueil cafe-bistro in the northern Burgundy village of Saint-Martin-sur-Ouanne is taken. The three-course lunch menu today – including a choice of a hefty chunk of steak with chips or a meaty lasagne – is

OpinionGuest Essay Credit... Listen · 21:33 min Sept. 11, 2026 Leer en español The biggest vibe shift in artificial intelligence since the release of ChatGPT is currently underway. Researchers in Silicon Valley — and around the world — are beginning to recognize that A.I. may no longer be entirely within

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. The American age that followed World War II was bound to end eventually. What’s shocking is how suddenly that moment has arrived. In the past six months, America’s power—long exemplified by the world’s best warfighting equipment and most highly trained military

The Keynote I loved the keynote’s “You want a great opening scene?” opening, which ran through a series of genre-inspired hook-you-from-the-first-shot pretend movie openings. Apple started with a title card that said “The following was shot on iPhone”, but the whole keynote — including the fun fake-movie openings — was

When iOS 27 first came out back in June, we started working on a series of in-depth feature guides and how tos that go through all of the updates in Apple's new software. Our ultimate guide aggregates all of our ‌iOS 27‌ coverage, and it is useful for iPhone and

Last year, a baby named Emanuel was born in Sweden. Before his first birthday, his parents were told that Emanuel could no longer stay in the country. The department of migration ordered his removal, alone, to Iran – despite the ongoing war. Emanuel’s parents were legally in the country. They

Content warning: This piece includes descriptions of nonconsensual sex and intimate image abuse. On the afternoon of Sunday, November 2, 2025, Maddie Kowalski stopped by a house in Gainesville to drop off a present. The University of Florida sophomore had traveled to Japan that summer, where she’d picked up an

A Critic at Large Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history. September 13, 2026 A ship named for the founder of political Zionism brings Jewish immigrants to the Port of Haifa, in 1948. According