Each week, Prudence asks readers for their thoughts on the letters she’s received. Her reply will be available every Friday only for Slate Plus members. Re Art Lover: As a painter myself, I go through ...

Experts worry Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Health Department will use an internal AI tool to analyze vaccine injury claims in a way that furthers his anti-vaccine agenda. The tool has not yet been deployed ...

Project Genie allows people outside of Google to try the company's Genie 3 world model. (Google) This past summer, Google DeepMind debuted Genie 3. It’s what’s known as a world world, an AI system ...

Yesterday, Google revealed its Project Genie AI-generation tool, allowing people to make “interactive environments” in seconds using just prompts. Today, in response to this, a bunch of investors seem ...

We're one week out from the NBA trade deadline and everyone wants to know if Giannis Antetokounmpo is going to get moved. If he does, the league's power structure will certainly update. But even if he ...

Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading. Netflix — Shares of the streaming giant declined 4% after Netflix reported a narrow earnings beat for the quarter that ended Dec. 31, ...

You’d think there’d be more excitement around the new year—we’re only three weeks in, people!—but instead everyone’s occupied with plumbing the depths of their camera rolls for relics of their 2016 ...

Sometimes, you just have to take the matter into your own hands—literally. In a world where we’re so often stuck behind screens, where the digital has displaced the analog as aggressively as possible, ...

Meta will finance Oklo’s purchase of uranium for its reactors. It’s a massive vote of confidence for both the startup and nuclear power, but challenges remain. There are two ways for tech companies to ...

Dunkin’ added Protein Milk to its menu with a lineup of protein-boosted drinks starting January 2026. The brand partnered with Megan Thee Stallion for the “Dunk N’ Pump” campaign to spotlight the new ...

Tony Dokoupil was named the new face of CBS Evening News in December 2025. Amid a company-wide shakeup at CBS’ parent company, Paramount-Skydance, Tony was switched to the nightly program from his ...

Lego's construction sets have been a fantastic choice for analog play for several decades now. These interlocking building blocks are set to get way more interesting with the inventive toy company's ...