ZAFI / Section 03

Artificial intelligence

Reporting on the models, money, labour and choices behind the AI boom.

AI · 9 min read

The models have left the lab. Now comes the hard part.

Artificial intelligence is becoming infrastructure before anyone has agreed what responsible infrastructure should look like.

By Amina Okafor

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AI

Small models are having a very big moment

02

AI

AI search still has a citation gap

03

Technology

Your browser is the new operating system

04

Design

The quiet collapse of the app icon

Reviews · 10 min

Nothing Phone 4 review: character, with conditions

The best-looking Android phone of the year is also one of its most complicated recommendations.

A modern smartphone photographed against a clean background

Business · 5 min

Why every startup is selling time

Productivity has become the universal language of the AI boom.

Culture · 8 min

The group chat is the last real social network

The social internet is retreating behind the typing indicator.

Friends talking together in warm evening light