Work
Cover Story
Training The Machine
How AI learned from language, images, code, people, and the world — and why the future of intelligence will depend on what machines are allowed to absorb, imitate, correct, and remember.
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Ideas
Mobility, Not Speed
Ideas
Culture
Frankenstein and AI Agents: The Same Question, Two Hundred Years Later
Culture
Culture
Where Sound Becomes a Decision
CultureTHE OBJECT
MacBook Neo: The Mac That Lowers the Gate
Apple’s cheapest laptop is not only a device. It is a signal that AI-native computing is moving from the professional edge to the entry point.
FIELD NOTES
What changed this week
A compact reading of the signals shaping work, business, culture, and the machine layer beneath them.
The future is shaped by people who can decide what the machine should never decide alone.
MAN/MACHINE Editors
Culture
The Song Does Not Care Who Made It
AI-generated music, authenticity, and the uncomfortable fact that people are already listening.
Culture