Culture

Mom Brain

Momfluencers Are Pitching AI as a Better ‘Coparent’ Than Men

Moms are outsourcing tedious household tasks to ChatGPT and selling courses teaching others to do the same. Where are all the dads?

Ej Dickson

Lovesick

Anti-Vax Dating Apps Are Going IRL. People Are Mad as Hell About It

Jason Parham

Culture

‘It’s Not a Joke’: A Simpsons Writer Holds His First Presidential Campaign Rally

Miles Klee

Digital Culture

AI Has Come for Serif Fonts

AI companies are using serif to project humanity. Critics are calling it “tasteslop.”

John Semley

Monica Lewinsky Has Always Hated Notifications

The writer and anti-bullying activist is on social media, but to protect her nervous system, she prefers not to be alerted.

Elana Klein

Redditors Are Using AI to Beat Obscene World Cup Ticket Prices

Soccer fans on r/WorldCup2026Tickets are using Claude to build DIY ticketing software, exchanging on back channels, and leaving scalpers scrambling.

Alex Christian

A Viral YouTube Show About an Unhinged AI Is Hitting Theaters. It’s a Big Test for Hollywood

The Amazing Digital Circus finale will hit more than 4,000 theaters around the world Thursday. Two weeks later it’ll be on YouTube, bucking Hollywood trends and testing the power of online fandom.

Angela Watercutter

Video Games

Gamers’ Worst Nightmares About AI Are Coming True

From the global RAM shortage driving up console prices to job loss in the industry, gaming is shaping up to be one of the AI boom's biggest casualties.

Helen Vogelsong-Donahue

Roblox’s AI-Powered Age Verification Is a Complete Mess

Kids are being identified as adults—and vice versa—on Roblox, while age-verified accounts are already being sold online.

David Gilbert

The Avatar Game Is So Good, They Don’t Need to Make the Movies Anymore

See the new movie Avatar: Fire and Ash if you’d like. But if you really want to experience the big blue world of Pandora, the video game is where it’s at.

Boone Ashworth

A New Las Vegas Attraction Serves Up Alien Foxes, Exoplanets, and VR Carl Sagan

Interstellar Arc is an immersive sci-fi experience that uses recent advances in headset tech to break new ground in virtual reality. And it all happens inside an empty-looking room in Las Vegas.

Ben Dowsett

Movies and TV

This Streamer Has Convinced the Internet Guy Fieri Never Swallows Food on TV

A video creator known as Doctor Spaghetti has scrutinized hours of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives to get to the bottom of an explosive culinary conspiracy theory.

Miles Klee