Elon Musk is steamrolling Wall Street to become a trillionaireToday on Decoder, I’m talking to Ryan Mac, a technology reporter at The New York Times and coauthor of the excellent book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, which came out in 2024. I can’t recommend it enough.I wanted to have Ryan on the show because we’re on the cusp of the SpaceX IPO, which promises to be one of the...

Australian man dies after falling down ravine on hike to Machu PicchuGetty ImagesThe man died after falling down a ravine on the Inca Trail to Machu PicchuAn Australian man has died after falling down a ravine while walking on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru, local authorities have said.Members of the High Mountain Rescue Unit in the city of Cusco found the body of Matthew Cameron Paton,...

In Japan, divorce splits parents from children. Could a law change end sole custody?2 hours agoKurumi MoriTokyo correspondentJiro Akiba/BBCIn Japan, until now only one parent held legal rights over the children after separationOn a weekday afternoon in Japan, John Deng stands near the playground, listening to other children play and laugh. His own son and daughter are nowhere in sight. He longs...

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Apple’s Image Playground doesn’t suck anymore Have you ever used the Image Playground app on your iPhone? Probably not — and you might not even know that your phone has a built-in AI image generation tool. That’s because until now, Image Playground has kind of sucked, generating AI imagery that simply isn’t as high-quality as what Apple’s competitors can make. At WWDC 2026 on Monday, Apple...