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Those Zoox Robotaxis
Amazon's purpose-built carriage with no steering wheel just expanded into San Francisco.
Read »Trump's AI Order
Trump signed a voluntary 30-day AI safety review. Smart balance, fig leaf, or Big AI win?
Anthropic's $965B IPO
It's worth more than OpenAI now, with $47B in revenue. Real AI economy, dot-com 2.0, or the end of the safety mission?
Is the Vibe Coding Bomb Going Off?
2,000 leaky AI-built apps, and a CVE surge
Is Everyone Fleeing to DuckDuckGo?
Google forced AI into search, and DuckDuckGo installs jumped 30%.
A $1,500 Flip Phone
Motorola's Razr Ultra is the best flip phone you can buy. It's also $200 pricier than its near-identical 2025 twin.
A $949 Steam Deck
Valve hiked the Steam Deck up to $300 -- now pricier than a PS5 Pro. Greedy, unavoidable, or a warning for every gadget?
A Shot to Regrow Your Cartilage?
Stanford blocked an "aging protein" and regrew cartilage in old mice. A cure for arthritis -- or another mouse miracle?
How Much Exercise Do You Need?
Recommendations are all over the map!
Karpathy Joins Anthropic
An AGI skeptic just joined the lab whose CEO thinks AGI is near.
Meta Cuts 8,000 to Fund Its AI Bet
Meta laid off 8,000 and gutted its safety teams while betting $145B on AI. Discipline, cruelty, or a jobs reckoning?
Carson Daly Doesn't Talk To His Daughter
Carson Daly reaches his teen mostly via Snapchat. Is that a sad workaround, no big deal, or exactly the right move?
A Foldable iPhone?
Apple's first foldable is rumored for fall 2026 at ~$2,000+. Game-changer, niche flop, or AI sideshow?
Google Bets It All on AI Agents
At I/O 2026, Google put agents everywhere. Is that the lead, the end of the open web, or the same old hype?
Is Fasting Actually Good for You?
The diet that promised timing beats calories is colliding with trials that say it's mostly just eating less.
Are Seed Oils Actually Bad for You?
RFK Jr. wants tallow back; cardiologists say seed oils protect your heart. A third camp says both miss the point.
LinkedIn vs. AI Slop
LinkedIn will deprioritize AI-generated posts. The same company offers a "Rewrite with AI" button.
Eric Schmidt Got Booed
Arizona graduates booed the speech and the speaker. The two reasons weren't the same.
Musk Lost in Two Hours
A federal jury unanimously threw out every claim.
Betting on Hantavirus
$10.6M traded on a hantavirus pandemic market. Polymarket is hyping unrelated cases to keep the volume coming.