Rather than analyzing the news this week, I thought I'd lift the hood a bit on how we make it. I've spent most of this year being pretty convinced that Donald Trump would be the 47th president of the United States. Even so, like most people, I was completely surprised by the scope of his...

You may have read thatit was a big week for Bluesky. If you're not familiar, Bluesky is, essentially, a Twitter clone that publishes short-form status updates. It gained more than 2 million users this week. On Wednesday,The Vergereportedit had crossed 15 million users. By Thursday, it was at 16 million. By Friday?17 million and counting....

This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. The rise of Bluesky, and the splintering of social You may have read that it was a big week for Bluesky. If you're not familiar, Bluesky is, essentially, a Twitter clone that publishes...

This story originally appeared in The Debrief with Mat Honan, your weekly take on the tech news that really matters. Sign up here to get the next one in your inbox. Last week, the US Department of Justicereleased its recommendations for proposed remediesin its antitrust case against Google. While no one thought the DOJ would...

This week, OpenAI announced what it calls the 12 days of OpenAI, or 12 days of shipmas. On December 4, CEO Sam Altman took to X to announce that the company would be doing 12 days of openai. each weekday, we will have a livestream with a launch or demo, some big ones and some...

Last week, this space was all about OpenAI's 12 days of shipmas. This week, the spotlight is on Google, which has been speeding toward the holiday by shipping or announcing its own flurry of products and updates. The combination of stuff here is pretty monumental, not just for a single company, but I think because...

This article first appeared in The Debrief,MIT Technology Review'sweekly newsletter from our editor in chief Mat Honan. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. On Tuesday last week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a blog post and video titled More Speech and Fewer Mistakes." Zuckerberg-whose previous self-acknowledged mistakes includethe Cambridge Analytica...