Morgan Meaker

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WhatsApp Made a Movie About Afghan Women's Soccer

The British government has had enough of online pornography. It’s had enough of fraud and trolls. It’s had enough of social media posts that try to promote suicide or eating disorders. In...

Israel’s Tech Companies Are Fighting Netanyahu—or Leaving the Startup Nation

Wix and Wiz are quintessential Israeli success stories. Founded in 2010, website builder Wix is one of the country’s best-known tech companies, and among the sector’s most highly valued on New York’s...

Everyone Wants Ukraine’s Battlefield Data

Wearing a baseball cap and thick, black-rimmed glasses, Cameron Chell is part defense contractor, part tech executive. His company, Draganfly, used to mainly work with emergency services in North America, selling drones...

A Battlefield AI Company Says It’s One of the Good Guys

On the screen in front of me is a mountain range. Moving toward my troops from the top-right corner is an ominous yellow dot. I suspect it’s an enemy drone, but it...

Wagner Mutiny Puts Russia’s Military Bloggers on a Razor’s Edge

The mourners carried armfuls of red roses. There was a military gun salute. Hundreds of people crowded to watch the coffin be lowered into the ground. This wasn’t the funeral of a...

Meet Pause AI, the Protest Group Campaigning Against Human Extinction

The first time we speak, Joep Meindertsma is not in a good place. He tears up as he describes a conversation in which he warned his niece about the risk of artificial...

Green Parties Are Gaining Power—and Problems

In January 2023, the German hamlet of Lützerath fell prey to a ravenous beast. A giant excavator clawed at the ground, gouging free great chunks of earth as a line of riot...

Sam Altman’s World Tour Hopes to Reassure AI Doomers

The excitement around the London arrival of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was palpable from the queue that snaked its way around the University College London building ahead of his speech on Wednesday afternoon....

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