Good Sunday afternoon from Manson, Washington . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, January 30, 2026, is below.

Data-driven AI systems increasingly influence our choices, raising concerns about autonomy, fairness, and accountability. Achieving algorithmic autonomy requires new infrastructures, motivation ...

I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.

Vampirella #10 releases February 4th, confronting deep questions of existence, identity, and agency. The issue features an AI ...

AI offers great benefits to retailers, but using personal data to set individualized prices, called surveillance pricing, faces growing regulatory backlash.

Artificial intelligence (AI) regulation and litigation are set to take center stage in 2026, as new laws, guidance, and enforcement priorities ...

As artificial intelligence reshapes white-collar work, a new national poll reveals a decisive shift in how Americans define career success. Most now value hands-on skills over formal degrees, seeing ...

New AI model decodes brain signals captured noninvasively via EEG opens the possibility of developing future neuroprosthetics ...

Discover Microsoft’s holistic SDL for AI combining policy, research, and enablement to help leaders secure AI systems against evolving cyberthreats.

In September 2025, Nvidia and OpenAI announced a letter of intent for Nvidia to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI’s AI ...

Artificial intelligence is moving quickly into mainstream medical devices, and the industry has become fluent in a familiar set of concerns: bias, transparency, and cybersecurity. These topics matter, ...

With Xcode 26.3, Apple is adding support for agentic coding, allowing developers to use tools like Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex right in Xcode for app creation. Agentic coding will ...