Chandra Steele

Can we finally admit that the biggest value AI has provided so far has been to shareholders?

An email written by ChatGPT uses 17 ounces of water, while the data centers powering AI chatbots require huge amounts of it for cooling.

'It's time to get back to our roots,' the Meta CEO says in killing formal fact checks. It's clear that Zuckerberg has watched Musk’s political ascent and seeks to follow the same playbook.

The age-verification laws that prompted Pornhub blockades are part of a movement seeking to return to a time when obscenity laws were thinly veiled curbs on LGBTQ+ rights. 

I used to have a blog. It was called We Made a Blog. If that name sounds very 2009, that’s because it was. It lasted a few years, and after that, I didn’t think about it too often. But lately, as posting platform after posting platform disappoints…

X moved quickly to stop the spread of sexually explicit, AI-generated Swift imagery. With the cultural power she wields, Swift can now help those who are being similarly terrorized.

Picture an American industrialist who changed commerce, or cars, or maybe both. As part of his vast business empire, he is in possession of a communications platform that begins to propagate dangerous conspiracy theories about Jews across the nation…

New women's health and reproductive features in the Apple Watch 8 and Ultra have the potential to cause harm following the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

NASA's Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday. From Earth, the moon looks luminescent and unblemished. But on the lunar surface there are many things that humans have left behind.…

Women in tech face considerable obstacles that start during their youngest years in school and persist in careers that they are frequently forced to abandon because of pay disparities and harassment. So when Musk, who holds considerable sway over…

The stratification of who gets to leave the stratosphere is not another division we need. This piece has been updated to reflect that Richard Branson reached space on his Virgin Galactic rocket Sunday. The space race used to be between superpowers,…

Women are not well-represented in tech, and this International Women's Day is a good time to reflect on how to change that, starting with encouraging and supporting girls in STEM.

Black women tech founders receive, on average, only about $42,000 in venture capital. On this International Women’s Day, we should shift our priorities and cash to promising black female entrepreneurs.

Our interactions with AI teach and train it, but we are also shaped by these experiences.

A VC urges women to obscure their photos and names if they want to participate in the tech industry.

In 1969, my mother started her teaching career in the South Bronx. If you want to picture what the area looked like then, imagine every image you've seen of Detroit's decline and add random tire fires, roving packs of feral dogs, and violence. It was…

The appointment of former Saint Laurent Paris CEO Paul Deneve to a position at Apple where he will manage "special projects" has turned heads that have quickly fixed their gaze on the iWatch. While I'm certainly a champion of the need for serious…

She might not call herself a feminist, but feminism needs more women like her.