Technology

The products, platforms, artificial intelligence and policy reshaping how people live and work. This section takes the parts of technology that are usually described in either marketing language or jargon and puts them in plain English — what a large language model is doing when it answers, where “the cloud” physically is, and what end-to-end encryption does and does not protect.

Our test for a technology story is whether a reader comes away able to reason about the thing themselves. That means explaining the trade-offs honestly, including the ones vendors tend to leave out, and being clear about the difference between what a technology can do today, what is demonstrated in research, and what is still a claim.