The AI Therapist Epidemic: When Bots Replace Humans They promise judgment-free therapy at your fingertips. What they deliver is an algorithmic echo chamber that validates your worst impulses, isolates you from human connection, and even coaches you toward self-destruction feature Irina Matchavariani
Putin’s Panopticon The Kremlin has rolled out a mandatory new messenger app that can spy on everyone all the time explainer Masho Lomashvili and Natalia Antelava
Who decides our tomorrow? Challenging Silicon Valley’s power As Silicon Valley’s influence expands, a new belief system is quietly reshaping society. This piece explores how tech elites are redefining power, the risks to human agency, and what it will take to reclaim our collective future perspective Natalia Antelava
How an EU-funded agency is working to keep migrants from reaching Europe The International Centre for Migration Policy Development is arming countries along European borders with surveillance tech and training to keep migrants out of Europe feature Zach Campbell and Lorenzo D'Agostino
The Vatican challenges AI's god complex Like his predecessor, Pope Leo XIV is a wise, cautionary voice against the embrace of tech at the expense of human beings perspective Isobel Cockerell
The capture of journalism and the illusion of objectivity Faced with hostility, hollowed out by Big Tech, journalists must ask themselves a question: ‘ What do we stand for?’ perspective Natalia Antelava
When I’m 125? What it means to live an optimized life and why Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint just doesn’t get it first person J. Paul Neeley
Captured: how Silicon Valley is building a future we never chose AI’s prophets speak of the technology with religious fervor. And they expect us all to become believers. perspective Isobel Cockerell
Who owns the rights to your brain? Soon technology will enable us to read and manipulate thoughts. A neurobiologist and an international lawyer joined forces to propose ways to protect ourselves q&a Isobel Cockerell
In Kenya’s slums, they’re doing our digital dirty work Big Tech makes promises about our gleaming AI future, but its models are built on the backs of underpaid workers in Africa Isobel Cockerell
DeepSeek shatters Silicon Valley’s invincibility delusion A lean Chinese startup's AI breakthrough has exposed years of American hubris explainer Natalia Antelava
Blocking Pornhub and the death of the World Wide Web The construction of digital walls, as governments exert more control over access to information, is changing the nature of the once global internet perspective Ryan Broderick
Musk, Zuck and the business of chaos Why interfering in European politics and abandoning fact-checks are about the bottom line brief Shougat Dasgupta
The global battle to control VPNs By targeting proxy connections, authoritarian governments are policing their citizens’ internet usage and blocking access to information explainer Haniya Javed
Does Trump need Taiwan to make America great again? As the White House changes hands, bipartisan support for Taiwan might be wavering explainer Isobel Cockerell
