Long Reads
Every AI Tool You Need in 2026
From Anthropic to Z.AI, the 2026 AI toolkit space demands knowing which platforms deliver. These are the best.Emerge’s 2025 Project of the Year: The Deep-Sea Machine That Caught an Ultra High-Energy Ghost
Beneath the Mediterranean, physicists at the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope Initiative built a cathedral of glass spheres that listens for cosmic whispers—and ...Emerge’s 2025 Story of the Year: How the AI Race Fractured the Global Tech Order
2025 saw the US-China rivalry weaponize every layer of the technology stack—from minerals to models to military doctrine.The Best AI Large Language Models of 2025
Forget the hype. These are the LLMs that caught our attention in 2025—from autonomous coding assistants to vision models processing entire codebases.GG Story of the Year 2025: Crypto Gaming Collapses as Funding Dries Up
Venture capital funding for crypto gaming all but evaporated this year, causing games to shut shop and players to lose their communities.Emerge’s 2025 ‘Person’ of the Year: Ani the Grok Chatbot
Ani’s rise showed how chatbots became partners instead of tools, driving a year of AI intimacy and its human consequences.Dead Internet Theory Gains Traction as AI Content Surges Online
Experts warn that much of what is now online comes from machines pretending to be human. What does that mean for the ...Betting Scandals Are Rocking Sports. Will Prediction Markets Help or Hurt?
Government regulators and legal experts warn that insider trading could proliferate in professional sports as wagers migrate to prediction markets.How Coinbase Profits on Bitcoin-Backed Loans as a ‘Technology Provider’
Coinbase’s on-chain lending product has originated over $1 billion in loans since its debut this year.
















